October 2011
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COVER STORY
Urban planting
While not quite Eden, concrete jungles and neighborhood dead zones are showing new signs of life, thanks to the efforts of a few green thumbs, reports Olga Bonfiglio.
Web only sidebars:
Parish resources
Growing a community garden at church
Related links
Resources for urban planting
INTERVIEW
Eating is believing
The American diet is making us sick in soul as well as body, says Catholic chef Kevin Gillespie in Expert Witness. A proponent of the Slow Food movement, he suggests Catholics should sit and think before they take and eat.
SOUNDING BOARD
Let's stop ignoring domestic violence
When hands strike at home, the church can't tell victims to turn the other cheek, argues Father Charles W. Dahm, O.P. in Sounding Board. In Feedback readers consider the best ways for parishes to provide safe havens to victims.
FEATURES
Where do babies come from?
Though Catholic teaching says that in vitro fertilization is ill-conceived, quite a few Catholic couples are putting their faith in the laboratory in a last ditch effort for a family, writes Patrick T. Reardon.
Sidebar: How parishes can help infertile couples
Web only: More couples' stories of infertility
Paint job
When artist Jo Myers Walker discovered her inner artist, she found the Holy Spirit alive on the canvas, reports In Person writer Sue Stanton. Now Walker helps bring out the artist in everyone.
ESSAYS
I'm open
Joan Sauro, C.S.J. sees grace in the gridiron and the Holy Spirit bobbing and weaving on the basketball court.
DEPARTMENTS
Editors' Note
You May Be Right Letters
Signs of the Times News
Catholic Tastes
Culture in Context: Reviews
Glad You Asked: Can a Catholic receive communion in a Protestant church?
At Home with Our Faith
Eye of the Beholder
Jerry Bleem, O.F.M.
COLUMNS
The Examined Life - Bryan Cones
Road tripped
Margin Notes - Kevin Clarke
Starved for attention
Culture in Context - Patrick McCormick
All-natural remedy
Testaments - Alice Camille
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