June 3-10, 2013

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Editorials

Current Comment

Big and Little Wars; ¡Justicia en Guatemala!; Last Words

Food Aid for Whom?

Much-needed reforms in the way food aid is delivered may be thwarted in Congress.

Articles

Pursuing the Truth in Love
Matt Malone, S.J.
The mission of 'America' in a 21st-century church

Books and Culture

Books
Pilgrims Without Progress
Andrew J. Bacevich
“I have the right to be unlimited.” So asserts a commercial currently running on network television, the
Books
Background Check
Jon M. Sweeney
America’s former editor in chief, Thomas J.
Books
A Legend Unraveled
Timothy Wadkins
In the Epilogue to his From the Jaws of Victory, a narrative about Cesar Chavez and the farm work
Film
All That Glitters
John Anderson
Having rendered some of the more majestic prose in American fiction, F.

Columns and Departments

The Word
A Woman Beloved by God
John W. Martens
The Word
Rise Up!
John W. Martens
Faith in Focus
Love Aflame
Silas Henderson
Columns
Thumbs Way Up!
Raymond A. Schroth
Columns
Dear Prudence
John Carr
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
Poem
Citrus Paradisi
Chelsea Wagenaar
Poem
Forays of the imagination
James S. Torrens
Letters
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Signs of the Times

Despite Truce, Violence Plagues El Salvador
Church Enjoys Fastest Growth in Asia, Africa
Pope Calls for Ethics Reforms, End to 'Cult of Money'
News Briefs
Uniting Against Human Trafficking
Gosnell and the 'Ugliness of Abortion'