Crisis • Vol. 23 • No.4 • April 2005 • www.CrisisMagazine.com Features: The Law of Unintended Consequences: A Cautionary Look at Overturning Roe V. Wade If abortion were outlawed tomorrow, would America be ready? Elizabeth Thecla Mauro takes a closer look at the possible inadvertent consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade. Under the Gun: The Hard Lives of Pakistani Christians Benedict Rogers travels to Pakistan to get a firsthand look at anti-Christian persecution. The Myth of Catholic Art: An Unmanifesto Maureen Mullarkey argues that there's no such thing as "Catholic art." As we Tread your Holy Way: Rediscovering the Way of the Cross Jessica Mesman reconnects with a devotion from her childhood. The Catholic Novels of Graham Greene Edward Short says that Graham Greene's novels reveal not a man who rejects his religion, but one who finds himself unable to live up to it.

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Book Reviews

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
by Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire

Secret Shakespeare: Studies in Religion, Theatre and Resistance
by Richard Wilson

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by Stephen Greenblatt

The Science Before Science: A Guide to Thinking in the 21st Century
by Anthony Rizzi

The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf 
by Mark Frost

Cash Values: Money and the Erosion of Meaning in Today’s Society 
by Craig M. Gay

Poem

Films

Poor Howard
Terry Teachout says The Aviator is more about Martin Scorsese than
Howard Hughes.

Music

Musical Metempsychosis
Robert R. Reilly isn’t entirely satisfied with a recent musical commemoration of the victims of September 11.

Departments:

Letters

Columns:

The Editor’s View
Brian Saint-Paul

From the Hill
Rick Santorum

The Idler
David Warren

Guest Column
Mark P. Shea

Cloud of Witnesses
George W. Rutler

Sense and Nonsense
James V. Schall

Ashes to Ashes
Tom Howard