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Articles

The End of Democracy? A Discussion Continued


by Various

Science and the Story
that We Need


by Neil Postman

That They May All Be One: The Imperatives and Prospects of Christian Unity


by Edward Idris Cassidy

To Reclaim Our Democratic Heritage


by The Editors

Reviews

Sorting Out the Culture Wars


by Saul Rosenberg

Exorcising Demons


by John P. Sisk

Pope 007?


by George Weigel

A Writer in Flight?


by John Wilson

Briefly Noted 132


by Various

Islam and Democracy


by Joshua Muravchik

Opinion

The Coming Age of Cathedrals


by John J. Reilly

In Defense of Sectarian Catholicity


by James Nuechterlein

Consecrating the President


by David M. Smolin

Letters

January Letters 132


by Various

Poetry

The Dying Infirmarian


by T. Kretz

Jupiter


by Brian Doyle

Dogwoods Not This Spring


by T. Kretz

Dogwoods Not This Spring


by T. Kretz

The Public Square

Under the Shadow


by Richard John Neuhaus

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