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  • How should John Kerry talk about values?

    Rep. Barney Frank, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Alan Wolfe, Thomas Frank, Andrew Greeley and others weigh in on how Kerry should define America -- and defeat Bush's morality crusade.
  • Signs and wonders

    A journalist's investigation of holy Christian visions turns into a tortured spiritual quest.
  • Letters

    Readers weigh in Gary Kamiya's "A Tale of Two Miseries," Catholics' view of the presidential election, and Sen. Zell Miller's recent attack on Bush's critics.
  • The Catholic factor

    Will John Kerry's fellow Catholics turn out for him the way they did for the last JFK?
  • My sad gay church

    Whatever decision the Catholic bishops make in Dallas this week, it's sure to lack a widespread or profound understanding of sexuality and the priesthood.
  • A priest on his knees

    Some of the best sex in my life has been administered by men of the cloth.
  • The arrogance of the Catholic Church

    The pope's refusal to seriously address the current sex scandal -- and his attempt to blame homosexuals for the problem -- follows in a grand tradition of church coverups.
  • A letter from the editor of "Defrocked"

    In these hard times, ex-priests need community, too, and now there's a magazine just for them!
  • Collared

    A priest and nun are silenced after refusing to condemn homosexuality.
  • The gay purge

    By scapegoating homosexual priests, the Catholic Church seeks to avoid a tougher look at its secret history of abuse.
  • Confessions of a former celibate

    A former priest, now married, thinks celibacy should no longer be an absolute condition for the priesthood.
  • Battle for the bloc

    Bush's agonizing over stem cell research points up the administration's effort to woo the Catholic vote -- at a time when many say it no longer exists.
  • Crime family

    In a passel of 10 kids, one learns the fine points of foraging, opportunism and guile.
  • Days of women and silence

    Living in a convent is an unusual choice for a student, but isn't every life a bit unusual?
  • Using her body

    Artist Renée Cox talks about the recent furor over her work, Mayor Giuliani, religion and growing up black in Scarsdale.
  • New York's bully in chief meets his match

    "Yo Mama" artist Renée Cox won't let adulterer Rudy Giuliani use Catholicism to beat her up.
  • Teens, sex and God

    By Ariel Amundsen
  • Teens, sex and God

    A 15-year-old finds that her church fosters hatred and fear when it should be about tolerance and love.
  • Faith in America

    What does religion mean now? Is it a mystical experience, a collection of social protocols or just common sense?
  • In trouble with the pope

    A Brazilian priest gets spanked by the Vatican for being pro-condom.
  • Mourning the loss of Cardinal O'Connor

    America's most powerful Catholic was a tough guy, and he was wise to the ways of politics and human beings.
  • My mother the nun

    It's true she was a bride of Christ -- just don't ask for details of the marriage.
  • Remembering Cardinal O'Connor

    He stopped taking my calls after I slammed him in the press, but he still had time to be kind to my mother, an Orthodox Jew.
  • Save your soul!

    For just a few bucks, an Italian housewife will do your praying for you.
  • Nothing compares 2 a big promotion

    Siniad kicked up the stairway to heaven. No wonder they're divorcing: Montel's wife claims they've been together for 60 lifetimes! Plus: Holy Madonna! Here comes Material Nipper No. 2!
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