| Correspondence | 2 |
| Editorials | 3 |
| Editor's notebook | 4 |
| Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien | |
| Controlling health costs | 5 |
| Reilly, Jeremiah P. | |
| Religious wars... | 6 |
| McCarthy, Abigail | |
| The new catechism | 8 |
| Cunningham, Lawrence S. | |
| Poetry | 10 |
| Gross, Pamela | |
| Screen | 12 |
| Alleva, Richard | |
| Stage | 15 |
| Weales, Gerald | |
| Lead Us Not into Temptation | 16 |
| Steinfels, Peter | |
| Faith and the Human Enterprise | 18 |
| Dovle, Dennis M. | |
| Are All Christians Ministers? | 20 |
| Imbelli, Robert P. | |
| Opus Dei | 22 |
| Dinter, Paul E. | |
| Springs of Water in a Dry Land | 25 |
| Redmont, Jane | |
| The Stripping of the Altars | 27 |
| Oakes, Edward T. |
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