James P. McCartin teaches at Seton Hall University. He is the author of Prayers of the Faithful: The Shifting Spiritual Life of American Catholics (Harvard University Press). Also by this author Prayer Cards & Holy Dirt Get Commonweal’s latest, delivered twice weekly. Email address Published in the 2005-03-11 issue: View Contents Most Recent A Crisis in Paradise By Núria López Torres and Agus Morales January 18, 2025 Whose Latinos? Which Ones? By César J. Baldelomar January 17, 2025 Prayers for Pacific Palisades By Patrick Whelan January 16, 2025