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Vol. 143 Issue 018 (November 11 2016)
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Letters
LETTERS Special revelation, ad orientem & MC priests WRONG ON REVELATION Many thanks for the great October 7 issue. I did have a problem with one article, however—the essay on revelation by...
Politics As Usual
From the Editors Politics As Usual As this issue of Commonweal goes to press, the November election is just weeks away, and the nation remains deeply polarized between two unpopular presidential...
Misdirected Investment
MORRIS, CHARLES R.
COLUMNISTS Charles R. Morris Misdirected Investment WHAT NEW YORK CITY'S GLUT OF NEW LUXURY APARTMENT BUILDINGS TELLS US ABOUT THE ECONOMY Over the past decade or so, the New York City skyline...
Making Religious Education Work
Nonomen, Fr.
Fr. Nonomen Making Religious Education Work START WITH THE PARENTS CC I ^ emember, children, today is r^T Wednesday. Don't leave anything valuable in your desks because the public-school students...
Turkey's Witch Hunt
Michel, Thomas
SHORT TAKES Thomas Michel Turkey's Witch Hunt WHY IS PRESIDENT ERDOGAN TARGETING HIZMET? Much of the world was shaken this past July by the attempted coup d'etat by certain members of the...
What Videos Can't Show
Gutting, Gary
Gary Gutting What Videos Can't Show BLACK LIVES & POLICE VIOLENCE Our intense and divisive debate over police violence has increasingly focused on striking videos ("raw" as they now say) that...
Seeing Is Believing
Nelson, Cassandra
ESSAYS Seeing Is Believing What Flannery O'Connor Meant by 'Vision' Cassandra Nelson Long before functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging showed how much of vision takes place in the brain—and...
Two Poems
Ponsot, Marie
TWO POEMS BY MARIE PONSOT the way out is in In an oval world where points of view are eye-shaped, out of a round world, helpless, where even the hamburger has an accredited helper, dirt...
Children of God?
Boudway, Matthew
Children of God? Cormac McCarthy's Misfits Matthew Boudway Critics have often described Cormac McCarthy as a writer beyond good and evil: his characters may appeal to moral ideas, they concede,...
Desired Things
McDermott, Alice
FICTION Desired Things Alice McDermott They had reached the age when all of their children's friends, as well their own friends' children, were getting married. Luckily enough, the weddings were...
Looking Out, Anytime
Ponsot, Marie
LOOKING OUT, ANY TIME I draw the praise-lines of a letter alpha or omega to honor light & air which refuse to be drawn as, right now, they engineer the east-borne career of three white clouds...
Birth of a Nation
Alleva, Richard
FILM Richard Alleva An American Spartacus 'BIRTH OF A NATION' There is no way to turn the story of Nat Turner into an entertainment that is morally neat and emotionally digestible. The worst...
The Le Nain Brothers
O'Donovan, Leo J.
ART Leo J. O'Donovan Plain Can Be Powerful THE LE NAIN BROTHERS Sometime before 1629, three brothers named Antoine, Louis, and Mathieu Le Nain left their home in the Northern French province of...
All Things Made New
Storrar, William
BOOKS William Storrar From Wittenberg to Brexit All Things Made New The Reformation and Its Legacy Diarmid MacCulloch Oxford University Press, $29.95, 464 pp. How significantly does the...
American Jesuits and the World
Keenan, James F.
James F. Keenan All the Pope's Men American Jesuits and the World How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global John T. McGreevy Princeton University Press, $35, 315 pp. This...
Modernity and Its Discontents
Wolfe, Alan
Alan Wolfe How We Got Here Modernity and Its Discontents Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow Steven B. Smith Yale University Press, $45, 402 pp. As I write this,...
The Terror Years
Shepp, Jonah
Jonah Shepp Why They Hate Us The Terror Years From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State Lawrence Wright Knopf, $28.95, 384 pp. Throughout the Cold War, the United States was accustomed to dealing with...
American Prophets
Haarman, Susan
Susan Haarman What God Demands American Prophets Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice Albert Raboteau Princeton University Press, $29.95, 248 pp. Thomas...
Love for Sale
Wilson, James Mcfetridge
James Mcfetridge Wilson Missing Notes Love for Sale Pop Music in America David Hajdu Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 320 pp. In his keynote address at the 2012 South by Southwest festival in...
The Resurrection Will Be a Remix
McNamara, Charles
LAST WORD The Resurrection Will Be a Remix Charles McNamara The Latin verb remisceo—to remix—appears fewer than twenty times in the first millennium of Latin texts. Making its debut in the final...
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