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U.S. Catholic ∙ Vol. 75, No. 4 ∙ April 2010

SPECIAL SECTION ON THE ENVIRONMENT

Our Lady of Waste Management
Catholics are discovering a new devotion to the environment, with recycling and rain gardens complementing Sunday Mass and rosary beads. Kristen Hannum explores the many ways parishes are going green.

For God so loved the cosmos
When the Word became flesh, he became stardust, too, argues theologian Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J. For that reason even the stones have a share in salvation.

Religious by nature
There's no conflict between finding God in nature and finding God at church, says Keith Douglass Warner, O.F.M. in Expert Witness. He calls for a spirituality that transforms the world outside by transforming us from inside.

SOUNDING BOARD

Let's drop the bomb
There's no time like the present to abandon the greatest threat to our future, says retired Bishop Leroy Matthiesen in Sounding Board. Catholics and their bishops should lobby for total disarmament, lest our nuclear nightmare become reality. In Feedback readers consider the merits of Mutual Assured Destruction.

FEATURES

Coming home to roost
Why should you have to tell your kid to take out the trash when he's 23? Michelle Bearden reports on the challenges of a crowded house when young adult children get boomeranged back to the nest.

Who are you calling a saint?
As we continue to celebrate our 75th anniversary, Executive Editor Meinrad Scherer-Emunds revisits a prophet of our recent past, Dorothy Day, who 30 years after her death continues to challenge the church she loved.

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ESSAY/OPINION

Help! I need somebody
How many cupcakes does it take to realize you can't do it all on your own? Somewhere around 300, writes Ann O'Connor, who finds that she can get by with a little help from her friends.

Fire starter
Chiara Lubich was inspired by a love that could gather many people around a single flame, writes Donald W. Mitchell in Wise Guides. Her Focolare movement sparked dialogue among religions that still lights a way the world over.

DEPARTMENTS

Editors' Note
You May Be Right Letters
Signs of the Times News
Catholic Tastes
Culture in Context: Reviews
Glad You Asked: Is it a sin to drive an SUV?
At Home with Our Faith
Eye of the Beholder 
Jerry Bleem, O.F.M.

COLUMNS

The Examined Life - Bryan Cones
What's your sign?
Margin Notes - Kevin Clarke
Go outside and play
Culture in Context - Patrick McCormick
Picturing the end
Testaments - Alice Camille
The beloved gospel?