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Articles in May, 2008 issue of First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

• How Catholic is Notre Dame?(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
  by Dempsey, William H.
• In sharpest contrast to Hillel Halkin's reflection is a long editorial in New York's Jewish Daily Forward.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Part of the vitality, and of the vacuity, of evangelical Protestantism is the unending and frenetic search for "the next thing.".(While We're At It)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Marx, Freud, and, above all, Nietzsche are atheists for whom one can have a measure of intellectual respect.(While We're At It)(God and the New Atheism)(Brief article)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• "Mormons Dismayed by Harsh Spotlight" is the headline on the front page of the Wall Street Journal the day after Mitt Romney dropped out of the race.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Max Stackhouse of Princeton Theological Seminary has been working for years on the theme of "God and Globalization.".(While We're At It)(Brief article)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Faith in the Halls of Power.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• Saving some more.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
  by Bischoff, Paul O.; Dulles, Avery Cardinal; Harrison, Brian W.; Kainz, Howard P.; Miller, Robert T.; Oakes, Edward T.; Walker, Steve; Wood, Jacob
• Dealing with sin and forgiveness in the public realm is a very tricky business.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Priest and ringmaster.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" writes a reader who picked up on an inaugural meeting at Georgetown University of a project called the Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue on the Common Good/Public Policy.(While We're At It)(Conference ne
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• It seems the tide has turned in public attitudes toward abortion.(While We're At It)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Prophesying to the Breath.(Poem)
  by Corbett, Maryann
• The freedom of theology.
  by Dulles, Avery Cardinal
• The Crescent and the Scimitar.(Book review)
  by Sahner, Christian C.
• Come an election year and there is a renewed flurry of interest in what religious organizations can and cannot do to make a political difference.(While We're At It)(Brief article)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Published accounts and personal conversations about the recently concluded 35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus suggest that it will be pretty much business as usual with the Jesuits.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Shakespeare's religion.
  by Miola, Robert
• Virtuous Leadership: An Agenda for Personal Excellence.(Briefly Noted)(Book review)
  by Anderson, Ryan T.
• The most distinguished public award offered by Notre Dame University is the Laetare Medal.(While We're At It)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• The expensive wraparound of this issue of Publishers Weekly is promoting Gene Robinson's In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God.(While We're At It)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Here is a promising new beginning.(While We're At It)(Catholic Association of Latino Leaders)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Missing mass.(Poem)
  by Turner, Frederick
• William F. Buckley Jr. and the possibilities of life.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)(Obituary)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Some points about Calvinism.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
  by Arrington, Barry; Cosby, Gary
• Charity's Gift.(Poem)
  by Salemi, Joseph S.
• The former editor of America, a Jesuit weekly, offers his response to the Pew data to the readers of the Washington Post, many of whom probably found his analysis plausible.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Many are the uses of the poor, and India is a veritable cornucopia of poor people.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• "American Catholics in the New Gilded Age.".(While We're At It)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• I reviewed a book for the New York Sun in which I had occasion to remark that the author's claims were excessively apodictic.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Safekeeping.(Poem)
  by Menashe, Samuel
• An uncommon word.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
  by Rood, Judith Mendelsohn
• Uncomfortable unbelief.(A Secular Age)(Book review)
  by McClay, Wilfred M.
• As I may have mentioned before, when in 1983 we launched the Center on Religion and Society, later to become the Institute on Religion and Public Life, there were in the country, as best I could determine, four such institutes or academic programs with th
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• It is a very old question and, quite understandably, people keep asking it.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• One of the most admired figures in Poland during the Solidarity period was Father Jozef Tischner, the first chaplain to the union movement.(While We're At It)(Brief article)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Life issues and the negotiable.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
  by Massmam, Virgil F.
• Drinking Stars.(Poem)
  by Jarman, Mark
• American Crust.(Poem)
  by Gwynn, R.S.
• Canada is in the odd position among the nations of the world in that it has no law with respect to abortion.(While We're At It)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Parental choice in education, through vouchers or some other instrument, continues to be a matter of simple justice.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Chance or Purpose?(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• What's So Great About Christianity.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• Why, a reader asks, do we permit Professor Thomas Derr to set the magazine's line on global warming.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• A marriage in full.
  by Anderson, Gary A.
• In late February, much news attention was paid the "U.S. Religious Landscape Survey" released by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, and deservedly so.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• During this past Lent of the Long Lent that is the Church's period of penance for the sex-abuse crisis, an organization called Justice for Priests and Deacons sent out a national mailing asking for support.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• History of the Book in Canada is a $200 set of three volumes and almost two thousand pages produced by the University of Toronto Press and tracing the story of book publishing in Canada from 1840 to 1980.(While We're At It)(Brief article)(Book review)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Late Have I Loved Thee: Selected Writings oF Saint Augustine on Love.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• A commonplace book.(Opinion)
  by Jacobs, Alan
• The Better Part of Valor.(Poem)
  by Shaw, Robert B.
• It was in 1988 that we hosted Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who gave our Erasmus Lecture, followed by several days of intense conversation with an ecumenical group of noted theologians and biblical scholars.(While We're At It)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Inner-city ministry, as it was called, was all the rage when I was a young Lutheran pastor.(While We're At It)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Oh, what a delicious brouhaha this is.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• "Let's get rid of all the nuclear weapons in the world.".(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
• Contemptus mundi and the love of life.(Opinion)(Essay)
  by Shaw, Amanda
• John Searle, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, has been writing for years and years on the quandaries of the brain-mind-consciousness connections.(While We're At It)(Freedom and Neurobiology)(Brief article)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Child of the revolution.(His Illegal Self)(Book review)
  by Griffiths, Paul J.
• I came across this the other day on a website designed for Protestant preachers.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Yes, it is true, I occasionally criticize our parish newsletter, the New York Times.(While We're At It)
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Those of a certain age may remember, as do I, the evening of March 23, 1983, when at the end of an address to the nation, almost as an afterthought, or so it seemed, President Ronald Reagan said that we must no longer resign ourselves to the prospect of c
  by Neuhaus, Richard John
• Wisdom 13:5-9.(Poem)
  by Murphy, Timothy