This is actually Catholic vl.5. That sounds extremely nerdy, but it's true. The first Catholic was published in an edition of 1,000 handmade zines to accompany a group show we curated in November, 2003, in New York.

This Catholic, the new one, the fancy one that you're holding, is double the size, refined and embellished. Not tamed, but groomed, let's say.

When we first had the idea to do a zine, it was like, "Well, we can just do cats the first time. Then we'll do plants. Or maybe something about costumes." The point was, Catholic at first would mean "cat-holic," like addicted to cats, but then after that the next editions could adhere to our favorite definition of Catholic: "Having varied tastes." (Look it up, it's true.) So, that's the way it was supposed to be.

But then we finished the zine, showed it to people, and when they all said, "I have literally been waiting my entire life for an arty magazine about cats and you should never stop doing this for as long as you live" (that's a bit of an exaggeration, but whatever), we decided that-- of course -- why abandon cats. We hate when people abandon cats.

Kelly Kuvo & Adam Dugas

Liz Goldwyn

Waris

Takahiro Imamura.

Amy Kellner

Jane Rule Burdine

Tim Barber

JD Samson

Roe Ethridge

Eileen Myles & Jordana Rosenberg

Bjorn Copeland

Richard Kern

Jaiko Suzuki

Josh Lyon

Patrick McMullan

Mary & Steve Lafreniere

Amber Gayle & David Miller

Cheryl Dunn

Liz Bougatsos & Brian Degraw

Peter Sutherland & Erik Anthony

Matt Keegan

Jean O'Brien

Scott Lenhardt

Ian Hundley

Ryan McGinley

Colin DeLand

United Bamboo

Stephen Sprott

Isabel Asha Penzlien

Greg Ginn with Jesse Pearson

David Aron

Pia Dehne

Balthus

Jeff Johnson & Blaise McDaris

Kembra Pfahler

Terry Richardson

Walter Potter & Sam Jenkins

Cormac Chase

Terence Koh

Peter Stanglmayr

Tina Hejtmanek

Glynnis McDaris

Brian Degraw

Wendy Mullin

Rosalie Knox

Kate Lacey

Stacy Wakefield & Jane O'Brien

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir

Jim Drain

Jim Krewson

Ashley Macomber

Mended Veil

Jeremy Scott

August Visco

Pieter Schoolwerth

Gabriel Orozco

Allison Edge

Bruce Nauman

Sabrina Mansouri

Sadie Laska

Deli Cats of New York City

Shawn Mortensen

Dash Snow

Judy Rifka

Ashley Thayer

Naomi Fisher

Gelatin

Wowch

Nick Zinner

Hisham Bharoocha

Cats in Review

Tim Barber

Jess Holzworth

Adam Stennett

Devin Flynn

Gavin McInnes

Alejandro Cardenas