| Correspondence 'The' church's 'The' crisis | 2 |
| Editorials When in Dallas | 5 |
| Et cetera Dunwoodie Seminary, Yonkers, N.Y. | 6 |
| George G Higgins, R.I.P. | 7 |
| Curran, Charles E. | |
| Continuing the conversation Jesuits in denial | 8 |
| McDonough, Peter | |
| Snake in the church | 9 |
| McGowan, Jo | |
| Foreign aid Where the money goes | 10 |
| Lozada, Carlos | |
| Church & state First Amendment concerns | 11 |
| Reagan, Kathleen | |
| AMERICAN DESTINY Can the world survive U S foreign policy? | 13 |
| Pfaff, William | |
| Sing-A-Long Sound of Music Dressed for the Alps Rand | 18 |
| Cooper, Richards | |
| The Anatomy of Racial Inequality by Glenn Loury | 20 |
| Wycliff, Don | |
| By the Lake by John McGahern | 22 |
| Breslin, John B. | |
| Thirty Days on Retreat with the Exercises of Saint Ignatius by Paul Mariani | 24 |
| Ruddy, Deborah Wallace | |
| A way forward Luke | 31 |
| Johnson, Timothy |
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