March 11, 2005 / Volume CXXXII, Number 5  

UPFRONT

CORRESPONDENCE

LETTERS

EDITORIAL

The Color Purple

ET CETERA

Merton: Persona Non Grata?

Closing Catholic Schools

COLUMNISTS

Christo’s ‘Gates’

John Garvey

Exporting Democracy

William Pfaff

Protect the Rich

E. J. Dionne Jr.

SHORT TAKE

Irish Catholicism

Michele Dillon

Twenty-five years after the pope’s visit

ARTICLE

A Historian’s Faith & Hope

John L. Allen Jr. | Eamon Duffy | Robert Ellsberg | Elizabeth A. Johnson | Margaret O’Brien Steinfels

Is the past prelude?

Our Greatest Threat

Douglas Roche

Taking nukes for granted

VERDICTS

ART

Caravaggio in Naples

Robert P. Imbelli

BOOKS

The Catholic Thing

John T. McGreevy

A Church That Can and Cannot Change

Dennis O’Brien

Faith That Dares to Speak | by Donald Cozzens | Common Calling | edited by Stephen J Pope

Thomas Baker

Science and the Trinity

Michael H. Barnes

POETRY

Hyacinth for the Soul

Joan I. Siegel

The Happiness of This World

Christophe Plantin

THE LAST WORD

End Time

James P. McCartin

THE LAST WORD