Crisis • Vol. 22 • No.11 • December 2004 • www.CrisisMagazine.com Features: The Mother of the Son: The case for Marian Devotion Mark P. Shea shows why honoring Mary is the most natural thing for a Christian to do. The New Language: A Crash Course in the Theology of the Body  Christopher West explains this little-understood but vitally important contribution of Pope John Paul II. Making Babies: A Very Different Look at Natural Family Planning H. W. Crocker III takes a humorous poke at natural family planning. Please send your angry mail directly to him.  Groundswell: The Pope, the New Movements, and the Church Cursillo, Regnum Christi, Communion and Liberation.new apostolic movements are exploding in the Church. Tom Hoopes takes a closer look at the groups some critics consider cults. Remembering Thomas Merton  Rev. Ray Ryland remembers his friendship with one of the most influential Catholics of the 20th century.

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Book Reviews

Anna Karenina 
by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America 
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World 
by Alister McGrath

Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies 
by Jeremy Varon

Worthy is the Lamb: The Biblical Roots of the Mass 
by Thomas Nash

Poem

"Lyke Wake"
by J. Bottum

The Quiet One"
by Anthony Lombardy

Films

Conversion Experience
Terry Teachout says Bright Young Things is a faithful, if not wholly satisfying, adaptation.

Music

Music Scrooge
Robert R. Reilly wants more of everything.

Departments:

Letters

Columns:

Sed Contra
Deal W. Hudson

The Editor’s View
Brian Saint-Paul

From the Hill
Rick Santorum

Guest Column
Randy Boyagoda

Cloud of Witnesses
George W. Rutler

Sense and Nonsense
James V. Schall

The Idler
David Warren

Ashes to Ashes
Tom Howard