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Vol. 129 Issue 019 (November 8 2002)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Correspondence From covers to the 'Last Word'
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Good cover(age) Let me add my vote of resounding approval for your October 11 cover. It is so important that Christianity not be hijacked by the pro-war team, and...
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Editorial What does Rome want?
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What does Rome want? The application of the policies adopted.. .in Dallas can be the source of confusion and ambiguity." Is this response from the Vatican an honest one, or does it forecast serious...
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A note from the editor
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A Note from the Editor I joined Commonweal in 1988, and its two-week schedule has set the rhythm of my thinking, reading, writing, and social life ever since. Twenty-two times a year for fifteen...
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Notebook Celebrating Vatican II
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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NOTEBOOK CELEBRATING VATICAN II Celebrating Archbishop Hunthausen On a dismal season for the Catholic Church, one bright if poignant note has been sounded by celebrations around the country...
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My kind of pol Wellstone will be hard to replace
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Dionne, E. J. Jr.
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E.J. DIONNE Jr. MY KIND OF POL Remembering Paul Wellstone The late Senator Paul Well-stone never walked into a room. He bounced, he bounded, he trotted-a bundle of energy coiled in a small frame....
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Plundering the dead Human bodies or organ farms?
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Gleeson, Andrew
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Andrew Gleeson PLUNDERING THE DEAD Harvesting the unborn Is it not time to stop regarding the dead body as anything but something to dispose of as quickly-and yes, as usefully-as possible? What is...
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Kidnapped From Baptist playwright to 'Catlick'
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VanOosting, James
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Kidnapped Jantes VanOosting From Baptist to Catholic I grew up a fundamentalist Baptist in 1950s Freeport, Illinois. Although I was allowed to play basketball with Mikey Pohill, I couldn't go...
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Eviction day
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O'Gorman, Angie
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Angle O'Gorman EVICTION DAY An eyewitness account From the window of my second-story apartment, I watch a sheriff with civilian cohort sleuthing about on the next block. My viewing angle prevents...
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Baptism
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Mattern, Evelyn
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Baptism You sleep deeply in your mother's arms in the front row of the small stone church far and not far from the center of things. In a few minutes cold water will strike your forehead and...
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THE CATHOLIC NOVEL Incarnation & the imagination
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Quinn, Peter
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THE CATHOLIC NOVEL Fact or fiction? Peter Quinn Is there such a thing as the Catholic novel?" Tricky question. My qualifications for addressing it boil down to two: I'm a practicing...
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A WAR FOR OIL Is Saddam Hussein the problem or is it Saudi Arabia?
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Mandle, Jay R.
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A WAR FOR OIL Bush, the Saudis, & Iraq Jay R. Handle I am deeply suspicious of economically deter-minist or conspiratorial explanations for political and historical events. The world is just too...
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Catholics online Where the 'orthodox' roam
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Peter Feuerherd CATHOLICS ONLINE Never an unpublished thought As if the bishops didn't have enough to worry about. Now they are under attack from the bloggers. Blogs-a word that combines "web"...
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A Moral Reckoning
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Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah; Sheehan, James J.
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Goldhagen at it again A Moral Reckoning The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Alfred A. Knopf, $25, 344 pp. James J....
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Caramelo
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Cisneros, Sandra; O'Connor, Kyrie
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A SALTY, GREASY HOT DOG Caramelo Sandra Cisneros Alfred A. Knopf, $24,454 pp. Kyrie O'Connor Sandra Cisneros's novel Caramelo could, dryly but accurately, be said to be about the...
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Girl Meets God
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Winner, Lauren F.; Sayers, Valerie
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AN UNCERTAIN TRUMPET Girl Meets Cod On the Path to a Religious Life Lauren F. Winner Algonquin, $23.95, 320 pp. Valerie Sayers In this tell-all age, the spiritual memoir faces a daunting...
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John Henry Newman
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Turner, Frank M.; ARX, JEFFREY VON
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NOWHERE ELSE TO GO? John Henry Newman The Challenge to Evangelical Religion Frank M. Turner Yale University Press, $35, 740 pp. Jeffrey von Arx Hew major intellectual figures have been so...
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A Badly Flawed Election:The Longest Night: The Vote
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Dworkin, Ronald; Jacobson, Arthur J.; Rosenfeld, Michel; Sunstein, Cass R.; Epstein, Richard A.; Magarian, Gregory P.
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HOW BUSH WON A Badly Flawed Election Debating Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court, and American Democracy Edited by Ronald Dworkin New Press, $26.95,352pp. The Longest Night Polemics and...
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Religion booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham The disciples' request, "Lord, teach us to pray" (Lk 11:1), elicited one of the most enduring and commented-upon of Christian texts, and the Lord's Prayer...
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En garde!
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Cohen, Richard
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The Last Word EN GARDE! Richard Cohen As war with Iraq appears increasingly unavoidable, some have suggested that George W. Bush's obvious personal animosity toward Saddam Hussein is more a...
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Vol. 129 Issue 020 (November 22 2002)
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