St. Jude

Basic training: The fight for social justice needs fresh troops in every generation. Megan Sweas describes how the struggle to close the former School of the Americas has become boot camp for a college-age crop of new activists.

Also:
Do Catholic universities make the grade?: There’s more than one way to be a “real” Catholic university, says the president of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, Richard Yanikoski, in Sounding Board.

SOA Diary: NEW! U.S. Catholic's Megan Sweas reports live from a demonstration to close down the School of Americas.

Monkey business:
Why intelligent design is weird science
Creationism has evolved into "intelligent design," but evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala argues creationism redux is not only bad science, it's bad theology.

Also: Battle fatigue
Robert McClory reports that there's still no "Mission Accomplished" in the priest sex abuse scandal.

Our previous coverage of the ongoing sex abuse crisis

Fall "Good Book" issue

The greatest story ever sold
With sales in the half-billion-dollar range, the Good Book is also good business for book publishers, who print Bibles in every size, color, and translation. Here's a guide to finding one just right for you.

Also: Step one: Open the book
OK, so it's really thick, has super-thin paper, and hundreds of chapters, but don't let that intimidate you. The Bible is a feast for the soul, so take a deep breath and dig in.

Recipe for a hungry planet: Five steps to a well-fed world
There are 1 billion going hungry every day, but Tara K. Dix has found five ways we in the land of plenty might dish out some of our surplus.

Also: Close encounters
We asked readers how they find Christ at Mass for our new Meditation Room department. As usual, readers both delighted and inspired us. Look for web-only content, meditations from our runners-up!