May 2008 • Vol. 18, No. 5

This Month's Features

A NEW PENTECOST: The Holy Father's inspiring visit to the United States. Editorial

CHRIST OUR HOPE: Complete coverage of Pope Benedict XVI's apostolic visit to the United States. News

THE MOVEMENT THAT WON'T DIE : The debate over physician-assisted suicide shifts to Washington as the state renews the drive toward legalization, reports Elenor K. Schoen. Special Report

JUDICIAL FARCE: Brian O'Neel describes the fallout from California Justice Walter Croskey's opinion to criminalize homeschooling. Special Report

JUST A COINCIDENCE? Questions linger over the decision by the board of the University of St. Thomas not to replace as chairman the retiring Archbishop Flynn with the incoming Archbishop Nienstedt, reports Philip F. Lawler. Special Report

A GUIDE TO THE ANGLICAN CRISIS: Most Catholics know little about it. They should start to learn, argues Stephen Page Smith. Essay

THE SCANDAL BEHIND THE SCANDAL: Philip Lawler's devastating account shows that the Boston archdiocese, a paradigm of the erosion of American Catholic identity generally, suffered from a worldliness that long predated its surge of abuse, says Anthony Esolen. Books

DEBUNKING POP CULTURE FOOLISHNESS: Vincent Ryan reads Sharan Newman's treatment of a much-maligned medieval order that separates fact from fiction. Books