August/September 2008 • Vol. 18, No. 8

This Month's Features

FATHER JENKINS' "CREATIVE CONTEXTUALIZATION": Thomas S. Hibbs takes a look at the fallout from and issues raised by the Notre Dame president’s decision to keep The Vagina Monologues on campus. Special Report

"I AM NOT CHANGING": Briefly on leave after his wild campaigning for Barack Obama, Father Pfleger unapologetically resumes his irregular ministry. Matthew A. Rarey was there for Pfleger’s homecoming Mass. Special Report

AN UNNATURAL DISASTER: The May earthquake in the Sichuan province has left parents and the elderly childless, forcing the world to take a new look at China’s sinister population control regime, reports Joseph A. D’Agostino. Analysis

THE UNDERPOPULATION PROBLEM: Steven W. Mosher talks to Michael J. Miller on the demographic consequences of birth control policies. Interview

WHERE THE LABORERS ARE FEW: Jeff Ziegler reports on the mixed vocations news from Europe and the Americas. Special Report

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO NANCY PELOSI: She has taken to calling support for the Democratic Party’s policy prescriptions on issues like the environment an “act of worship,” says Paul Kengor. Analysis

INNOVATIVE MODELS: Elenor K. Schoen reports on three Catholic programs in North America that are unconventional in their settings but solid in their teaching. Special Report

NO COMMUNION WITHOUT COMMUNICATION: Anthony Esolen reads Russell Shaw’s astute treatment of clericalism in our day. Books