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Vol. 125 Issue 009 (May 8 1998)
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Correspondence
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Rational, but brief I have subscribed to your magazine for only a short time, but am enjoying it immensely, not the least for its condensation of rational discourse into so few pages! I am...
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Editorial
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STAFF Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Executive Editor: Paul Baumann Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan Production Editor: Tiina Aleman Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt Business Manager: Gregory...
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A fearless voice: Denise Levertov
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Isbell, Harold
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be undertaken anyway). All of this helps to construct and maintain a shared world view. This conversation is vital to how we understand the world, what we think, and the actions or inactions we...
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Visions & other gifts
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Callahan, Sidney
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~ hat are we to make of modem religious visions and intense experiences--mine, yours, Mother Angelica's? Such episodes produce conflicts for me as an intellectual Christian believer...
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Union destruction act
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Candaele, Kelly; Dreier, Peter
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grandiose delusions of special divine revelations. So why couldn't all these tricks of the mind and emotions apply to my religious experiences? Did I really see Mary? Do I really experience...
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Northern Ireland
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Gaffney, Edward McGlynn
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Edward McGlynn Gaffney NORTHERN IRELAND A vote for peace he partition of Ireland stems from the Treaty of 1922, in which England agreed to withdraw from Dublin and the twenty-six counties that...
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Clerical Character(S)
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Long, J.V.
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CLERICAL CHARACTER(S) Rereading J.F. Powers J . V . Lonfl II ~ n the mid 1960s, I finished parochial school in a newly constructed, handsomely maintained suburban parish in upstate New York....
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Saint Nicholas & Art
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Wren, Celia
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II ~ t is hard, it is hard indeed," a bored theater critic intones in Tom Stoppard's comic masterpiece The Real Inspector Hound, "and therefore I will not attempt, to refrain from invoking...
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A lapse in taste
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Pfaff, William
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ecution. Reza has balanced ninety minutes of human and intellectual insight onto a witty premise: three men--devoted friends for years--find their relationship crumbling after one of...
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Quarantine
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Johnson, Luke Timothy
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Jesus in the desert Luke Timothy Johnson II H im Crace has pulled off the literary equivalent of a perfect triple-triple jump in iceskating. He has written a novel that has Jesus as its...
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Maybe One
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Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe
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ENOUGH ALREADY Barbara Dafoe Whitehead verpopulation is not high on the list of problems Americans worry about. After all, the birth rate in the United States currently stands below...
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A Love Song
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Moore, Michelle
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to limit population. (He does advocate reducing the quotas on immigration, however.) Rather, his argument for the one-child family is an appeal to individual conscience and voluntary action....
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The Gifts of the Jews
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Gediman, Paul
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INVENTING TIME, SELF & ETHICS Paul Gediman O O n 1996, a short book with a long title became a surprise bestseller. Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of...
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Enduring Love
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Sayers, Valerie
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EU P, U P & AWAY Valerie Sayers // ~ an McEwan's elegant, unsettling novels seek out the dangers that lurk, waiting to disrupt everyday lives: child snatchers, accidents, vicious animals,...
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Thrones and Dominations
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Bartelme, Elizabeth
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back on itself this way, but the story floats away as quickly as the balloon which set Joe Rose's ordeal in motion, and the current carrying it is plot. The ideas trying to anchor that plot drop...
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The Communion dress
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Hage, Kathleen
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WTHE COMMUNION DRESS Kathleen Hage very once in a while it is given a long nostalgic look when someone is rummaging through in the attic looking for the crynoline slip or the prom dress...
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Vol. 125 Issue 010 (May 22 1998)
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