For sure, NCR has lost many of its most interesting and thoughtful writers. McClory and Kennedy are foremost in my mind. But there is also the bigger picture: By focusing narrowly on our religion, it must be admitted that there is just not that much going on. The snail's pace of the Catholic Church, the procrastination, the endless excuses for not doing anything, and the refusal to believe in a sophisticated, non-didactic education of the people in the pews are weighing down any attempt to be lively and vital. The solution might be to examine spiritual life issues more broadly and situate the Catholic approach within a more diverse and less parochial topic.