July 4 , 2005


Crisis • Vol. 23 • No. 6 • June 2005 •
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Features:

Loneliness and the Death of the Catholic Town
Anthony Esolen remembers the town of his youth and examines the role Catholic social teaching plays in the formation of community life.

No Prophet In His Own Land: Reflections On Benedict XVI
Alice von Hildebrand wonders why the new pope hasn't been celebrated by his countrymen.

How Abortion Hurts Women: The Hard Proof 
Erika Bachiochi looks at the incontrovertible data that women are harmed by abortion.

Teaching Euthanasia
Patrick J. Reilly offers a disturbing exposé of the role professors at Catholic colleges played in the killing of Terri Schiavo.

Standing On The Mound: The Virtues of Baseball
Ardent baseball fan Elizabeth Thecla Mauro says that America's national pastime is more than just a game.

Weighing Doubt: One Playwright's Measured Look at the Crisis in the Catholic Church
Joan Frawley Desmond says that the Tony Award-winning play, Doubt, A Parable, offers surprising insight into the sex-abuse crisis in the American Church.



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Books - Arts - Culture:

Remembered Past: John Lukacs on History, Historians, and Historical Knowledge—A Reader edited by Mark G. Malvasi and Jeffrey O. Nelson

Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship
by Christopher Hitchens

The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood
by David Thomson

Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s and Why They Came Back
by Eleanor Agnew

God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America
by Naomi Schaefer Riley

An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power
by John Steele Gordon

Poem

"No Doubt?" 
by David Berman

Films

Fallen Worlds
Terry Teachout looks at the underappreciated genre of film noir
.

Music

After the Revolution
Robert R. Reilly recommends three talented Soviet composers.


Departments:

Letters

Columns:

The Editor’s View
Brian Saint-Paul

The Idler
David Warren

Guest Column
Rev. William H. Stetson

Cloud of Witnesses
George W. Rutler

Sense and Nonsense
James V. Schall

Ashes to Ashes
Tom Howard


 

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