The phone rang. "What do you think we should do? Stay here or leave?" my daughter asked. She was calling from the forty-first floor of an apartment building four blocks from the Word Trade Center (...)
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Peter Steinfels is the author of A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America (Simon & Schuster), and writes the “Beliefs” column for the New York Times.
Jean Porter teaches ethics at the University of Notre Dame. Her most recent book is Natural and Divine Law: Reclaiming the Tradition for Christian Ethics (Eerdmans, 1999).
Bruce Martin Russett is Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations, Yale University.
Robert E. White, a former United States ambassador to El Salvador and Paraguay, is president of the Center for International Policy.
