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SPECIAL YOUNG ADULT ISSUE

First comes love: How young couples are altering the path to marriage [1]

By Heather Grennan Gary
More couples are creating their own variations on the standard progression from love to marriage--sometimes with stops in between. Heather Grennan Gary explores how couples are tackling church teaching on marriage and family, for better and for worse.

Sidebar:

Is marriage on the rocks? [2]

Sounding Board

Don't wait for marriage [3]

By John Van Epp
With many young adults delaying marriage to their late 20s, John Van Epp issues a countercultural call to put a ring on it in Sounding Board. In Feedback readers married and single debate the best age for wedding bells.

Feature

In good company [4]

By Christina Capecchi
Young adults are finding they have to do some community organizing of their own if they want to make a church connection, writes Christina Capecchi.

Sidebars:

Tips for young adults in search of faith communities [5]

Tips for faith communities in search of young adults [6]

Photo Story

Traveling mercies

By Alexander Zoltai
After eight months in Guatemala, Alexander Zoltai had to say good-bye to new friends, but he took with him fond memories and a deeper faith, along with the images in this photo story.

Essays

(Essays, short stories, and poems may not be available online.)

Om-schooled [7]

By M.M. Hubele

What's the connection between Hindu yoga and Christian prayer? It's all in the way you stand, writes M.M. Hubele. Or sit. Or kneel. Or lie down.

In Person: Goal keeper

By Daniel P. Smith
David Mulcahy may be young, but he's already scored big with his ideas to fight poverty, writes Daniel P. Smith.
 

iPray [8]

Practicing Catholic: BYO faith

By Joanna Hatch
Sodalities may have an old-school feel, but they do share some things with today's faith-sharing groups, writes Johanna Hatch. For one, they both start around the kitchen table.
 

Word of God, Word of life [9]

By Meinrad Scherer-Emunds
Though not quite a rock star, the late Eugene LaVerdiere, S.S.S. helped U.S. Catholic readers find in the Bible rock-solid faith, writes Executive Editor Meinrad Scherer-Emunds.

Departments

Editors' Note

You May Be Right (Letters to the Editor)

Signs of the Times (News)

Catholic Tastes (Humor)

Culture in Context: Music, film, and book reviews [10]

At Home with Our Faith [11]  (Family spirituality)

Eye of the Beholder (Art meditation)

Glad You Asked: Is social justice the same as socialism? [12]

Columns

The Examined Life: Problem children [13]
By Bryan Cones

Margin Notes: Union made in China [14]
By Kevin Clarke

Culture in Context: No free rides
By Patrick McCormick

Testaments: Words of wisdom
By Alice Camille