Crisis • Vol. 24 • No. 8 • October 2006 •
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Features:

HOW TO VOTE CATHOLIC
Deal W. Hudson looks at the obligations—and the options—facing today’s Catholic voter, issue by issue.

THE MEANING OF MARRIAGE
Benjamin D. Wiker says the term “marriage” has become meaningless today, and argues that the trouble started much earlier than you think.

AMERICA’S CREATIVE TENSION: FINDING THE BALANCE BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE
Armstrong Williams explores the uneasy but necessary relationship between faith and government.

THE GIFT: A MARRIED PRIEST LOOKS AT CELIBACY
Rev. Ray Ryland—a married Catholic priest—dismantles the “historical” case for a non-
celibate clergy.