| Correspondence: Bishop, pastor, layman, minister | 4 |
| Editorial: Forgive us our trespasses | 5 |
| From the archives: May 3, 1963 | 6 |
| One last word | 7 |
| McCarthy, Abigail | |
| Oh, behave! | 8 |
| Callahan, Sidney | |
| Santa's helper | 10 |
| Reidy, Maurice Timothy | |
| CHRIST THE KING? | 11 |
| Landy, Thomas M. | |
| Music | 12 |
| Porter, Anne | |
| JUST THE FACTS, MAN | 14 |
| Greeley, Andrew M. | |
| VOWS, NOT LAWS | 16 |
| O'Rourke, David K. | |
| The Messenger Dogma | 17 |
| Alleva, Richard | |
| A Gesture Life | 19 |
| Lee, Chang-rae | |
| When Pride Still Mattered | 20 |
| Maraniss, David | |
| Boston Catholics | 22 |
| O'Connor, Thomas H. | |
| Index to Volume CXXVI | 24 |
| Overdue at the library | 31 |
| Schilling, Timothy P. |
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