Leslie Woodcock Tentler, author of Catholics and Contraception: A History, is professor of history at the Catholic University of America. Also by this author ‘Once in a Great City’ Get Commonweal’s latest, delivered twice weekly. Email address Published in the 2005-05-06 issue: View Contents Most Recent Francis’s Church? By Massimo Faggioli April 21, 2025 Francis and ‘Commonweal’ By The Editors April 21, 2025 The Last of the Boom By Santiago Ramos April 21, 2025