Robert McClory reports on how congregation-based community organizing is making a world of difference. Parish nurses are just what the doctor ordered Bob Zyskowski reports on the growing trend of parishes enlisting nurses to work as pastoral partners . Come back to me with all your heart Photographer Tom Wright and writer Tom McGrath take a road trip to Iowa, where they bid farewell to seven Trappistines setting off to rebuild a monastery on ancient foundations in Norway. We've come to accept the just war principles the church has set forth, says Kevin Clarke in Margin Notes. If this were my last Lent Father George R. Szews wonders how Lent might change if he were living on borrowed time.
Readers agree that the church ought to get into the sex education business .
C.C.V.I. She tells how the Lenten and Holy Week practices of the Latino community help make everyday life understandable and bearable. Lord, hear our complaints Dolores Curran notes that when it comes to the offertory, too many parishioners only want to bring up the whine. Ash Wednesday makes its mark At his college campus, says Practicing Catholic author Ed Block, this holy day of non-obligation lets anonymous believers give and receive signs of their faith. The drug war is only a hallucination Ten years later, we reprint The Examined Life , in which Robert E. Burns questions the sincerity and wisdom of America's militaristic approach to its chronic drug problem. The questions still linger.