September 2001


Crisis Vol. 19 No. 8 - September 2001

Features:

Catholicism With a Latin Beat
S.G. Liaugminas reports on the Hispanic immigrants who are reshaping the American Church.

From Cuba to the Cabinet
Deal W. Hudson interviews U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez.


Cover art by
Kevin Chadwick

The UN’s War Against Children
Mary Jo Anderson warns about international efforts to promote sex and abortion to youngsters.

Campus Crusade for Catholicism
Teresa Hartnett describes the fast-growing Fellowship of Catholic University Students.

Why Catholic Schools Deserve a Public Break
Jason Boffetti argues that they serve a public purpose by turning out morally informed citizens.

The Devotion of Aaron Neville
Raymond Arroyo profiles the New Orleans funkster who evangelizes with tattoos and St. Jude earrings.

Books - Arts - Culture:

A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
by Mary Ann Glendon

Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age
by Fiona Maddocks

Men at Arms - Officers and Gentlemen - The End of the Battle
by Evelyn Waugh

Friendship and Ways to Truth
by David B. Burrell

Beast and Superbeast
Among cinematic ogres, Terry Teachout picks Sexy Beast over Shrek.

American Beauty
Robert R. Reilly samples the homegrown musical treats of Samuel Barber.

Departments:

Letters

Columns:

Sed Contra
Deal W. Hudson

Late Edition
Michael M. Uhlmann

Brass Tacks
Charlotte Allen

These Parables
George W. Rutler

Sense & Nonsense
James V. Schall

End Notes
Ralph McInerny

Seeing Things
Robert Royal

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