| Correspondence | 2 |
| Editorials | 3 |
| School lunches torpedoed | 4 |
| Ferner, Mike | |
| Going bananas | 4 |
| Rodden, John | |
| Filling in the gaps | 6 |
| Callahan, Sidney | |
| When a child dies | 7 |
| Garvey, John | |
| The epidemic of forgiveness | 9 |
| Marino, Gordon D. | |
| Preserving chaos | 12 |
| Murphy, Patrick T. | |
| Poetry | 14 |
| Root, William Pitt | |
| Chant around the clock | 15 |
| Thibodeau, Ralph | |
| A different voice | 17 |
| Garry, Patrick M. | |
| Poetry | 17 |
| Gallagher, Jean | |
| The Revolt of the Elites, by Christopher Lasch | 19 |
| Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth | |
| The Death of Common Sense, by Philip K Howard | 20 |
| GLENDON, MARY ANN | |
| Aids, Gays, and the American Catholic Church, by Richard L Smith | 22 |
| Nash, James L | |
| Conor, by Donald Harman Akenson/Conor Cruise O'Brien, edited by Donald Harman Akenson | 23 |
| Russello, Gerald J | |
| Religious booknotes | 25 |
| Cunningham, Lawrence S. | |
| Inventing our names, our selves | 30 |
| Thompson, Cliff |
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