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BOOKS More, or Else BERNARD G. PRUSAK As much as Trump’s chaos may appall liberals, part of the president’s appeal is that he breaks things. He breaks expectations, norms, even...

Religious liberty & moral complicity (June 2023)

BERNARD G. PRUSAK Gorsuch Gets It Wrong Religious liberty & moral complicity With all the U.S. Supreme Court’s other controversial decisions in its 2021–2022 term, it’s understandable that its...

Pope Francis and the Transformation of Health Care Ethics by Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler (February 2023)

BOOKS All a Matter of Perspective? BERNARD G. PRUSAK Catholic health care in the United States finds itself at a startling point of convergence with non-Catholic health care. On the...

Follow Your Conscience (October 2021)

Internal Affairs BERNARD G. PRUSAK “Conscience” has a suggestive but also enigmatic etymology. It is “knowledge with”— but with whom? One answer is simply: with ourselves. In conscience, we...

The paradoxes of deterrence (March 2021)

SHORT TAKES BERNARD G. PRUSAK The Paradoxes of Deterrence How the debate about nuclear weapons has evolved A little more than halfway through their 1983 pastoral letter, The Challenge of Peace,...

In Search of the Soul (November 2020)

BOOKS A More Hospitable Framework BERNARD G. PRUSAK The first book by the English philosopher John Cotting-ham that I encountered was On the Meaning of Life (2003). There was, it struck me then,...

Catholic Social Teaching (September 2020)

BOOKS Leave It to the Laity BERNARD G. PRUSAK CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING A Volume of Scholarly Essays edited by gerard v. bradley and e. Christian brugger Cambridge University Press $155 | 644...

The ethics of harm reduction (November 2019)

ARTICLE The ethics of harm reduction & the Church of Safe Injection Start with Safe Bernard G. Prusak Jesse Harvey describes himself as "in recovery." He has been involuntarily committed five...

Protecting Religious Liberty (May 2018)

ARTICLES Protecting Religious Liberty Has That Become an Elusive Concept? Bernard G. Prusak Liberalism's Religion Cécile Laborde Harvard University Press, $35, 344 pp. During my first year of...

A Right not to Fight (December 2017)

Bernard G. Prusak A Right Not to Fight MAKING THE CASE FOR SELECTIVE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION As the nation reckons with life under its irascible, sometimes seemingly irrational president, prayers...

Realizing the Distinctive University (June 2017)

Bernard G. Prusak The Dean Looks Back Realizing the Distinctive University Vision and Values, Strategy and Culture Mark William Roche University of Notre Dame Press, $25, 288 pp. The late Ted...

Holy Cities (December 2016)

ART Bernard G. Prusak Holy Cities THE CONTEMPLATIVE WHIMSY OF BRIAN WHELAN In her book on Jerusalem, the religion writer Karen Armstrong notes that "in Hebrew the word for 'holy' (kad-dosh)...

Beyond the Abortion Wars (May 2015)

BOOKS Bernard G. Prusak The Wrong Description Beyond the Abortion Wars A Way Forward for a New Generation Charles C. Camosy Eerdmans, $22, 224 pp. The University of Scranton recently made...

Just Warriors, Unjust Wars? (February 2014)

Just Warriors, Unjust Wars? Deciding When It's All Right to Fight Bernard G. Prusak The philosopher Jeff McMahan opens his extraordinary 2009 book, Killing in War, with a reflection on Ludwig...

A Riskier Discourse (November 2012)

A Riskier Discourse How Catholics Should Argue Against Abortion Bernard G. Prusak ££ f an we talk about abortion?" Dennis O'Brien, Peter Steinfels, and Cathleen Kaveny asked in a noteworthy...

In God'S Shadow (November 2012)

Bernard G. Prusak On Earth, Not in Heaven In God's Shadow Politics in the Hebrew Bible Michael Walzer Yale University Press, $28, 256 pp. This book, the eminent political theorist Michael...

The Moment of Recognition (December 2011)

ARTICLE The Moment of Recognition Rembrandt & the Face of Jesus Bernard G. Prusak For a decade now, I have spent two days every fall discussing the story of the binding of Isaac in Genesis 22...

A History Of Catholic Moral Theology In The Twentieth Century (October 2011)

Bernard G. Prusak Not Dead Yet A History of Catholic Moral Theology in the Twentieth Century From Confessing Sins to Liberating Consciences James F. Keenan, SJ Continuum, $29.95, 256...

Leaving and Coming Home (April 2011)

Bernard Q. Prusak Beyond the Impasse? Leaving and Coming Home New Wineskins for Catholic Sexual Ethics Edited by David Cloutier Cascade Books, $31, 282 pp. Do not remember the former things or...

Why Animal Suffering Matters (July 2010)

Bernard Q. Prusak Humane Society? Why Animal Suffering Matters Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics Andrew Linzey Oxford University Press, $29.95, 206 pp. Three years ago, in response to...

Reform and Resistance in the American University (March 2010)

Books Bernard Q. Prusak The Old College Try -si 5 The Marketplace of Ideas Reform and Resistance in the American University Louis Menand W. W. Norton, $24.95, 176 pp. In a New York Times...

A Marginal Jew (January 2010)

Books Bernard G. Prusak A Marginal Jew Memoirs Hans Jonas Edited by Christian Wiese Translated by Krishna Winston Brandeis University Press, $35, 320 pp. God Interrupted Heresy and...

After God (April 2008)

Bernard G. Prusak The Lord & Taylor After God Mark C. Taylor University of Chicago Press, $35, 416 pp. W hen I was a student at Williams College in the 1990s, Professor Mark C....

All We Can Eat? (July 2007)

All We Can Eat? Thinking about Vegetarianism A Bernard A fter living in England for a year, and eating one too many dishes of poorly cooked, unidentified meat, I came home to the United...

Active Liberty (December 2005)

Books r gl o o Bernard Prusah How Should Judges Judge? Active Liberty Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution Stephen Breyer Alfred A. Knopf, $21,176 pp. S uPreme Court Justice...

Memory and Identity (June 2005)

Bernard Prusalt The Enlightenment & All That tt3 e-q m" al o O Memory and Identity Conversations at the Dawn of the Millennium Pope John Paul II Rizzoli, $19.95, 172 pp. O f all the...

Continuing the conversation: (October 2004)

BISHOPS & ABORTION Bernard G. Prusak "For the pope, the bishops...and most practicing Catholics," Newsweek' s Kenneth L. Woodward wrote recently in the New York Times, "abortion is the taking of...

God? (May 2004)

PLAYING WITH FIRE God? A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist l' illiunr Ininc ()wig and Walter 1-Armstrong Bernard G. Prusak have seen things," Thomas Aquinas is reputed to...

Correspondence Sex abuse & baby boomers (June 2002)

CORROSPONDENCE Prove it Peter Steinfels's "The Church's Sex-Abuse Crisis" (April 19) is interesting, but he repeatedly makes use of the assertion that "what we are not seeing is a new post-1993...

Correspondence Potential & actual disagreements (March 2002)

CORRESPONDENCE Respect for life Thank you for the debate on the pro-life issue (February 8). Commonweal has again honestly looked at both sides of the question. However, your authors write as if...

Pilgrim Stories by Nancy Louise Frey (May 1999)

Pilgrim Stories On and off the Road to Santiago Nancy Louise Frey Bernard G. Prusak Three years ago I walked 1,000 miles across France and Spain in the company of strangers. What brought us...

Politics, Religion & the Public Good (September 1998)

POLITICS, RELIGION & THE PUBLIC GOOD An interview with philosopher John Rawls Bernard G. Prusak H ohn Rawls is widely recognized as the most important American political philosopher...

The Religious Sense (March 1998)

the leader of the movements he championed, only a presence within them. His essential presence is felt in the city' parishes he describes so vividly and, finally, as he leads us on a tour of...

Striving towards Being/The Journals of Thomas Nerton (September 1997)

FIVE VOLUMES & COUNTING Striving towards Being The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz Edited by Robert Faggen Farrar. S!r n amt Girnux. $21. loll pp W The Journals of Thomas...

Martyrs (January 1997)

AFTER YOU Martyrs Contemporary Writers on Modern Lives of Faith Edited by Susan Bergman HarperSanFrancisco, $23,334 pp. Bernard G. Prusak This book cuts to the heart of the matter, the heart of...

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