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 Coming of Age in America By Peter Quinn April 9, 2025 Devotion to the Displaced By Antonio Graceffo April 8, 2025 A Rival Magisterium By Shaun Blanchard, Richard T. Yoder April 7, 2025