| Correspondence | 2 |
| Editorials | 3 |
| An editor's notebook | 4 |
| Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien | |
| Bush faltering | 6 |
| Chapin, Jim | |
| The church's teaching | 7 |
| Connors, Russell B. Jr. | |
| Bush's ambivalence | 9 |
| Callahan, David | |
| A choice in Rhode Island | 10 |
| Carlin, David R. Jr. | |
| Small changes, big losses | 12 |
| McCarthy, Abigail | |
| Who's doing Catholic theology? | 13 |
| Egan, Robert J. | |
| Poetry | 19 |
| Pavlich, Walter | |
| Nearer than the door | 20 |
| Cunneen, Joseph | |
| Screen | 22 |
| Alleva, Richard | |
| Stage | 24 |
| Weales, Gerald | |
| Media | 25 |
| McConnell, Frank | |
| Lenten book suggestions | 27 |
| The Great Dissent | 31 |
| Spaeth, Robert L. | |
| The Moral Vision of Dorothy Day | 34 |
| Scott, David | |
| The Evangelist of Desire/The Divine Dramatist/ John Wesley's Sermons | 36 |
| Moore, Arthur J. | |
| Jocoserious Joyce | 38 |
| Hederman, Mark Patrick | |
| Religious booknotes | 40 |
| Cunningham, Lawrence S. |
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