February 1, 2002



Crisis Vol. 20 No. 2 - February 2002

Features:

A Tale of Two Bishops
M.A.Thiessen takes you inside the outlawed Chinese Catholic Church.

Crisis interview with Mikhail Gorbachev
Deal W. Hudson asks the former Russian president about Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and the future of U.S.-Russian relations.


Cover photo by AP/
Wide World Photos

A Renaissance in Chicago
John Burger discovers how one dying parish came roaring back to life.

Adoption: A Love Story
Deal W. Hudson finds his son...halfway around the world.

The Catholic vision of Frank Capra
Maria Elena de las Carreras Kuntz reveals how Catholicism shaped the work of a beloved American filmmaker.

Books - Arts - Culture:

Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God
Jack Miles

America's Bishop: The Life and Times of Fulton J. Sheen
Thomas C. Reeves

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen: A Man for All Media
Edited by Gregory Joseph Ladd

Hamlet in Purgatory
Stephen Greenblatt

Breaking Faith: The Pope, the People, and the Fate of Catholicism
John Cornwell

Mercy Among the Children: A Novel
David Adams Richards

The Soul of a Lion: Dietrich von Hildebrand
Alice von Hildebrand

Literature Regained
Robert Royal recommends the Czech novelist Ivan Klíma, a writer unafraid of unpalatable truths.

Stylishness and Its Discontents
Terry Teachout says the new Ocean's Eleven is barely better than the unfortunate original.

Bad Boy Made Good
Robert R. Reilly introduces you to the radical son of classical music.

Down the Drain
Raymond Arroyo believes the hottest show on Broadway may signal the death of muscial theater.

Departments:

Letters

Columns:

Sed Contra
Deal W. Hudson

Late Edition
Michael M. Uhlmann

These Parables
George W. Rutler

Sense & Nonsense
James V. Schall

End Notes
Ralph McInerny

 

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