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 Vol. 125 Issue 015 (September 11 1998)
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Vol. 125 Issue 016 (September 25 1998)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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Editing the creed After reading the editorial and related articles in your issue of August 14, I propose the following addendum to the Nicene Creed: "We believe that the fullness of truth has...
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Editorials
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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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Confronting the Generals
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Callahan, Sidney
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A s U.S. cruise missiles have been deployed again, I am reminded of a conference I attended in California. There I met three young U.S. Army generals who were also invited speakers. They were...
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A Parish Dismissal
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O'Brien, Dennis
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of my fellow Christians who defend just wars. But in the end, none of these arguments convinces me. How could they when, as a Christian, I believe in a God who chooses to suffer violence on...
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No Melting Pot
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Horgan, John
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John Horgan NO MELTING POT Immigration comes to Ireland he Irish experience of emigration has long been the subject of countless ballads, as well as providing one of the most important...
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Starr Chambers
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Vitullo-Martin, Julia
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Julia Vitullo-Martin STARR CHANBERS The problem with grand juries ince Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr's use of the federal grand jury has the nation's attention at the moment, now...
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Politics, Religion & the Public Good
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PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
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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...
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The Woodlouse
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Gudding, Gabriel
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The Woodlouse Few of us have heard his crinkling integument, his fuss and jog at the grease and riddled-wood that shim, as always, the axle of the world. Yet things drop back into its dusty...
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Dorothy Day: The Play
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Wren, Celia
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he stage is a lie," Voltaire said; "make it as truthful as possible." Often, a production's physical setting plays a role in luring us to accept a dramatic lie, the words and movements of...
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Bonnard at MOMA
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O'Donovan, Leo J.
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Leo J. O'Donovan LONGING & LOSS Pierre Bonnard at MOMA ~ hen New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) presented its first exhibition of Pierre Bonnard in 1948, just a year after the artist's...
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The Bird Catcher
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Keen, Suzanne
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Words take f l i g h t Suzanne Keen ~ ead over time, a journal like Commonweal begins to feel like a friend, known well enough to be praised and abused, missed when it goes away over the summer...
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BOOKS
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Callahan, Daniel; Koller, Christopher F.
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kneads silence down into dough, and lets it rise." This sampler of conclusions suggests how accessible, how aphoristic, and even quotable Ponsot's poems can be. Yet there is never anything...
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The Idea of Human Rights
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McCabe, David
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lic health priorities lose out to individual medical treatment and research. One also wonders if Callahan paints with too broad a brush and fails to acknowledge differing cultural...
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Religion Booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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~ aybe he looked indeed/ much as Rembrandt envisioned him" wrote the late lamented Denise Levertov, but, in fact, we will never know. However, there is no end to those who wish to provide...
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Aidan's Gift
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Crane, Sam
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AIDAN'S GIFT Sam Crane idan does not talk. He cana not stand, walk, or see. He will never do these things because his brain is atypical; in the womb it grew in a...
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