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MATTHEW BOUDWAY There Ought to Be a Law The temptations of American legalism In this country, political movements to legalize something are usually also social movements to normalize it....

â€˜Heroes of the Fourth Turningâ€™ (December 2019)

STAGE MATTHEW BOUDWAY Dry Bones ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning' Will Arbery's new play, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, which was staged this fall at Playwrights Horizon in NewYork, is itself...

An Interview with Wim Wenders (June 2018)

FILM Worthy of His Name WIM WENDERS DISCUSSES 'POPE FRANCIS: A MAN OF HIS WORD' In May Commonweal hosted an advance screening of Wim Wenders's new documentary, Pope Francis: A Man of His Word....

Children of God? (November 2016)

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,...

Merciful God, Merciful Church (June 2014)

INTERVIEW Merciful God, Merciful Church An Interview with Cardinal Walter Kasper During his first Angelus address, Pope Francis recommended a work of theology that "has done me so much good"...

Hopkins Agonistes (May 2011)

ARTICLE Hopkins Agonistes The Poet's Quarrel with Himself & God Matthew Boudway Toward the end of his life, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) suffered several long bouts of depression. His "dark...

Face Time (March 2011)

THE LAST WORD Face Time Matthew Boudway When the organizers of a recent panel discussion about Catholic twentysomethings and pop culture asked me to participate as a representative...

The Mourners (July 2010)

Art Matthew Boudway Mourning Glory 'THE MOURNERS: TOMB SCULPTURES FROM THE COURT OF BURGUNDY' Public expressions of grief, even at their most authentic, are a kind of performance. The tears may...

Christmas Critics (December 2009)

Christmas Critics Matthew Boudway The poets Samuel Menashe, Jack Gilbert, and W. S. Merwin are now all in their eighties. Their reputations secure, their voices assured, they are free...

Suffering, Silence & Holy Week (April 2009)

In the face of an atrocity, the comforts of prayer and piety can look not only empty but obscene. This was always true, but after the Holocaust it became a truism. Primo Levi, one of the best...

Richard John Neuhaus (January 2009)

Movement Man Matthew Boudway RIchARD john neuhAus, 1936–2009 G the and public intellectual—was RJN. When, writer Neuhaus—priest, John Richard . Fr WFB. .K. Chesterton was GKC. William F....

Nothing to Be Frightened Of (October 2008)

Full Stop Matthew Boudway Nothing to Be Frightened Of Julian Barnes Alfred A. Knopf, $24, 288 pp. Tis a memoir about dying, death, school teacher and veteran of the First taking sides....

EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK : The Proof (March 2008)

Commonweal. March 28, 2008 Matthew Boudway The Proof REv. JoHN R. BECkER JR., SJ (1925–2008) W hen I was in college, a Catholic friend once asked me what more he could do, besides...

A Gentle Whisper (June 2007)

The Last Word A Gentle Whisper Matthew Boudway I nto Great Silence, Philip Gr6ning's threehour fihn about a Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, arrived in New York to a great noise of...

Christmas Critics (December 2006)

Christmas Critics Matthew Boudway T wo of the best books I read this year were both day-by-day accounts of long, unlikely walks. Apart from that, and their general excellence, they have...

Boulanger, Raymond P.

Boulding, Kenneth E.

Boullaye, H. Pinard de la

Bourdow, Joseph A.

Bourke, Vernon J.

Bourn, Gregory

BOURNE, TERESIUS

Bournes, Pierre

Boursey, A. M.

Bouvier, Virginia M

Bouvier, Virginia M.

Bowden, Henry Warner