W. David Myers is associate professor of history at Fordham University. He is the author of Poor, Sinning Folk: Confession and Conscience in Counter-Reformation Germany (Cornell). Also by this author Get Commonweal’s latest, delivered twice weekly. Email address Published in the 2004-09-10 issue: View Contents Most Recent Poem | The Say-but-the-Word Centurion Attempts a Summary By Les Murray April 18, 2025 Failures of Will By Dominic Preziosi April 18, 2025 Trump’s Offshore Gulag By The Editors April 17, 2025