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Vol. 139 Issue 013 (July 13 2012)
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Letters
LETTERS The bishops & religious freedom, the common cup BROADLY SPEAKING As one of the lay consultants to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty, I found...
Immigration Solutions?
From the Editors Immigration Solutions? More illegal immigrants have been deported under President Barack Obama's administration than during any other three-year period in the nation's history....
Commonweal Online
COMMONWEAL ONLINE LADIES & GENTLEMAN From the dotCommonweal post "Cherchez la femme," by Mol-lie Wilson O'Reilly: Women. They're so easily led astray. Culture of Life Foundation ethicist E....
The Church Downstairs
Nonomen, Fr.
COLUMNISTS Fr. Nonomen The Church Downstairs WHAT CATHOLICS CAN LEARN FROM ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS The little church downstairs has a good problem: it needs more chairs. Every day of the week,...
The Paranoid Pentagon
Pfaff, William
William Pfaff The Paranoid Pentagon DOES THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WANT PEACE? The disclosure that current U.S. drone warfare operations are directed from the presidential office in the White House,...
What Sanctions Did to Iraq
CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION What Sanctions Did to Iraq THREE YOUNG REFUGEES RESPOND Earlier this year eight Iraqi students between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three read the debate in...
The Priority of Labor
Finn, Daniel K.
ELECTION 2012 DanielK. Finn The Priority of Labor ROMNEY, BAIN CAPITAL & CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING Private equity firms typically play their cards close to the vest and resist public scrutiny,...
The Wind
Hill, Nellie
THE WIND Anyone could have said go and then dumped the words behind the train station. All kinds of buzzings and clickings emerged from those grasses. I was walking out among the...
Not a Muslim Issue?
Metzger, Gregory
SHORT TAKE Gregory Metzger Not a Muslim Issue? WHAT'S MISSING FROM THE BISHOPS' STATEMENT ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM The USCCB's recent statement "Our First, Most Cherished Liberty," which calls for...
Simon of Cyrene
Frentress, Madeleine
SIMON OF CYRENE after James Wright I saw the spears, the cross, the crown of jest. Behind, a shove—I fell out from the crowd. I felt the press of wood against my chest. Beneath his yoke, I bore...
After Sarkozy
Englund, Steven
ARTICLE After Sarkozy Can the Socialists Fix France (andMaybe Europe)? Steven Englund Nothing unbecame Nicolas Sarkozy so much as the way he lost power. In the waning months of the French...
Tunneling
Cooper, Rand Richards
FICTION Tunneling Rand Richards Cooper It began, Eleanor would remember later, when she caught him in the basement, masturbating—or so she thought, anyway, for a strange and topsy-turvy...
Moonrise Kingdom
Alleva, Richard
SCREEN Richard Alleva Whimsical Gallantry 'MOONRiSE KINGDOM' Up to now, watching a Wes Anderson movie was like entering a playground and discovering that the sandbox, the teeter-totters, and all...
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith
Bacevich, Andrew J.
BOOKS Andrew J. Bacevich Lapel-Pin Christianity Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith Religion in American War and Diplomacy Andrew Preston Knopf, $37.50, 832 pp. Every now and then a book...
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Callahan, Sidney
Sidney Callahan Overriding Irrationality Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30, 512 pp. Daniel Kahneman is the most respected and influential psychologist in...
The Letters of T. S. Eliot
Knight, Christopher J.
Christopher J. Knight The Hollowed Man The Letters of T. S. Eliot Edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton Yale University Press Volume 1 (1898-1922), $50, 912 pp. Volume 2 (1923-1925), $50,...
American Nations
Loiacono, Gabriel J.
Gabriel J. Loiacono Ununited States American Nations A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Colin Woodard Viking Press, $30, 384 pp. Did the Founding Fathers bring...
Rethinking Fundamental Theology
Cattoi, Thomas
Thomas Cattoi Modest Method Rethinking Fundamental Theology Gerald O'Collins Oxford University Press, $65, 400 pp. The latest work published by the prolific Australian Jesuit theologian Gerald...
Revelations
Johnson, Luke Timothy
Luke Timothy Johnson Canon Fodder Revelations Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation Elaine Pagels Viking, $27.95, 256 pp. Politics is always the operative word in Elaine...
Baby on Board
Doyle, Brian
THE LAST WORD Baby on Board Brian Doyle I went to a baptism the other day, in a lovely old empty church. It was one of those brilliant afternoons when the sunlight coming in through the old...
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