U.S. Catholic magazine - June 2011
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COVER STORY
They’re baaack: What’s behind the return of the exorcist
Priests who drive out demons are becoming as common in Hoboken as they have been in Hollywood, thanks to new interest in this medieval ministry, reports Daniel Burke.
INTERVIEW
Roads less traveled
Travel writer Rick Steves has long appeared on your PBS station with tips for great trips, but since 9/11 he’s been exploring the spiritual side of travel. In Expert Witness he invites us along for the ride.
Sidebar: Rick Steves' 5 most spiritual places in Europe
SOUNDING BOARD
Should Catholics go away?
U.S. Catholic readers say summer travel is good for body and soul, reports Assistant Editor Meghan Murphy-Gill in this Reader Survey, but they say you can’t broaden your horizon if you spend your vacation just staring at it.
FEATURE
A few brave men
Though war and terror are driving Iraq’s Christians into exile, some of their sons are staying as seminarians. Jackie Spinner asks how these priests-to-be find the courage to follow the call.
WEB ONLY! Slide show of Iraqi seminaries by Jackie Spinner
ESSAYS
A tale of two baptisms
Though both involved a baby and some water, Edmund Stubbing found that there is a right way and a wrong way to welcome a new addition to the church’s holy family.
Serve it family style
Banish the BlackBerry and nix the Nintendo—it’s time to eat, writes Tom McGrath, with advice on how to make the family dinner the most important meal of the day.
Take a closer look
How should you read the Bible? The monastic way: slow and steady, says Sister Sheryl Chen, O.C.S.O. in Practicing Catholic.
DEPARTMENTS
Editors' Note
You May Be Right Letters
Signs of the Times News
Catholic Tastes
Culture in Context: Reviews
Glad You Asked: Is there a list of infallible teachings?
At Home with Our Faith
Eye of the Beholder
Jerry Bleem, O.F.M.
COLUMNS
The Examined Life - Bryan Cones
Bad call
Margin Notes - Kevin Clarke
Star power
Culture in Context - Patrick McCormick
Morally wounded
Testaments - Alice Camille
Taste and see
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