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 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