Dry Bones

Why Religion Can’t Live without Mysticism

Luke Timothy Johnson

The great religious battle of our time is not the one being waged between believers and unbelievers. Yes, that's an important and certainly a noisy conflict. But more significant than that struggle is the clash occurring within religious traditions.

Fraternal Correction

Lessons from the Irish Sex-Abuse Crisis

Nicholas P. Cafardi

It is now clear that for more than two decades, simultaneous tragedies of episcopal malfeasance played out in both the U.S. and Irish churches, as bishops in both countries systematically mishandled allegations of child sexual abuse committed by their priests.

‘Peaceful & Private’

MONTANA’S SUPREME COURT RULES ON ASSISTED SUICIDE

Cathleen Kaveny

In a fit of radical judicial activism, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled that physician-assisted suicide does not violate state law, making Montana the third state (after Oregon and Washington) to legalize the "procedure." 

Crying Wolf

The Editors

If the Senate's health-care reform bill does not pass, conservative lobbying groups, most of which are opposed to reform for other reasons, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which supports reform in theory, will bear some responsibility for it.