| Correspondence | 2 |
| Editorial | 3 |
| Rome speaks | 4 |
| HUCK, GABE | |
| Kinship is forever | 5 |
| Callahan, Sidney | |
| An alienating culture | 7 |
| Garvey, John | |
| Dissent & communion | 9 |
| Steinfels, Margaret O 'Brien | |
| Poetry | 14 |
| Porter, Anne | |
| My patron, Thomas the doubter | 16 |
| Elie, Paul | |
| The Community of Sant'Egidio | 20 |
| Imbelli, Robert P. | |
| 'Commonweal' & the 'Catholic Worker' | 24 |
| Jordan, Patrick | |
| Six decades of rewarding struggle | 26 |
| Skillin, Edward S. | |
| Poetry | 28 |
| Partridge, Dixie | |
| Screen | 30 |
| Alleva, Richard | |
| Media | 31 |
| McConnell, Frank | |
| Testing the Gospel story | 33 |
| Johnson, Luke Timothy | |
| From the Heart of the American Church, David J. O'Brien | 36 |
| Marsden, George M. | |
| Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police, John Leo | 38 |
| Hoyt, Robert G. | |
| Catholic Lives/Contemporary America, edited Thomas J. Ferraro | 39 |
| Freeman, Mary Lee | |
| Gender and Discourse, Deborah Tannen | 41 |
| O'Brien, Dennis | |
| Liberal for the right reasons | 45 |
| Clancy, William P. | |
| Poor for the right reasons | 46 |
| Day, Dorothy |
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