Those of you lucky enough to receive First Things in ink will find on the back page of the October issue (not yet on line) an ad "announcing the envoy of the year gala" (being awarded to Archbishop Charles Chaput). You may puzzle at the ad headline:"Christian voices are far too silent in the public square. Join us as we turn up the volume."To this, we can only ask how much louder can it get? Before we are all deafened?

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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