Bonus article available

As a special bonus for Columbus Day weekend, we’re making available here on our website a second article from the October issue of First Things . It’s called " When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano: Catholic Culture in America ," an account of the curious Catholic situation in the nation these days.

Meanwhile, we’re off on Monday to hear Philip Jenkins give our annual Erasmus lecture here in New York. The author of such works as The Next Christendom and Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America , Jenkins promises a lively talk, which should, in due course, appear in the pages of First Things .