June 1, 2002



Crisis Vol. 20 No. 6 - June 2002

Features:

The Puzzle of Leon Kass
Dana Wilkie profiles the man who may decide the future of human cloning in America.

Can the Bishops Heal the American Church?
George Sim Johnston argues that a new set of procedures isn't enough to solve the clerical sex-abuse problem.


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War of the Doses
Carol Worth reports that the government has spent over a trillion dollars to protect us from what may be a nonexistent threat.

The Witches Next Door
Sandra Miesel looks at why witchcraft has gone mainstream.

The Way of Conversion
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese says that the true challenge of conversion lies not in changing one's mind but in the actual living of faith.

Crisis Interviews Jim Towey
Deal W. Hudson talks with the new head of the president's faith-based initiative about religion, politics, and Mother Teresa.

Books - Arts - Culture:

Poem
"Saint Bernard's Hymn of Praise to the Virgin Mary" by Dante Alighieri, translated by Dana Gioia

The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity
by Philip Jenkins

Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo, translated by William Weaver

Goodbye! Good Men: How Catholic Seminaries Turned Away Two Generations of Vocations From the Priesthood
by Michael S. Rose

The Long Truce: How Toleration Made the World Safe for Power and Profit
by A.J. Conyers

Medieval Children
by Nicholas Orme

P.C., Phone Home
Terry Teachout explains why the rerelease of E.T. was bound to fail at the box office.

Catch-Up to the 20th Century
Robert R. Reilly reviews several new recordings of some favorite 20th-century composers.

Departments:

Letters

Columns:

Sed Contra
Deal W. Hudson

Late Edition
Michael M. Uhlmann

Guest Column
Mark Gauvreau Judge

These Parables
George W. Rutler

Sense & Nonsense
James V. Schall

End Notes
Ralph McInerny

Seeing Things
Robert Royal

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