Healing the Victims and Healing the Church ROGER MAHONY and RICHARD KIRBY, Cardinal Roger Mahony is archbishop of the Los Angeles Archdiocese. Richard Kirby is a victim-survivor of sexual abuse by a priest. He spoke to a meeting of cardinals during the bishops' conference in Dallas.
A Deadline Looms in Paradise RANAN R. LURIE, Ranan R. Lurie is a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and a syndicated columnist and political cartoonist.
U.S. on Risky Road if It Uses Nuclear Bluff ANTHONY CLARK AREND and DOUGLAS B. SHAW, Anthony Clark Arend, a professor of government at Georgetown University, is author of "Legal Rules and International Society" (Oxford University Press, 1999). Douglas B. Shaw, a doctoral student at Georgetown, served in the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Department of Energy.