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 Vol. 131 Issue 019 (November 5 2004)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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RUSKO, NINA C.; GILLAN, GARTH JACKSON; CURNIN, MIRIAM; O'CONNOR, GWENDOLYN; Tilley, Terrence W.; RUECHEL, FRANK; DOWNS, JEROME F.; COMMINS, MARY G.; CARROLL, EAMON R.; Cunningham, Lawrence S.; SHEA, NANCY M.; VERRETTE, PAUL F.; SPENGLER, (MSGR.) JAMES
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Wise words I can't thank you enough for publishing Margaret O'Brien Steinfels's article on the presidential election ("Time to Choose," October 22). I am a committed...
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Editorial A Catholic president?
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Baumann, Paul
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A Catholic president? This eightieth anniversary issue of Commonweal goes to press a week before Election Day. Many of our subscribers will know the result of the 2004 presidential race-if there is...
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Et cetera More anniversary news
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ET CETERA More anniversary news The new year will bring a new look to your favorite magazine. Commonweal's appearance hasn't changed often in its eighty years of publication-which is not to say it...
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Notebook Catholics & democracy
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Baumann, Paul
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NOTEBOOK CATHOLICS & DEMOCRACY Michael Williams & the culture wars Home readers may recall that I have a serendipitous connection with Commonweal's founding editor, Michael Williams (1877-1950)....
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Unspeakable sins
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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OF SEVERAL MINDS CATHLEEM KAVENY UNSPEAKABLE SINS Why we need to talk about them Huring his tenure as cardinal archbishop of Boston, Bernard Law vigorously defended the position of the Catholic...
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Christian gentlemen A memoir
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Sheed, Wilfrid
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Wilfrid Sheed CHRISTIAN GENTLEMEN A chapter of 'Commonweal' history Hhere has never been a cult of personality at Commonweal, for which, on the whole, the Lord be thanked and the saints be...
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Growing up Commonweal
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O'Gara, Margaret; O'Gara, Monica
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Margaret O'Gara & Monica O'Gara GROWING UP COMMONWEAL What it meant; what it means We were two and four years old in 1952 when our family moved east from Chicago so that our fa- ther could take up...
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THE MASS BELLS OF MAREMMA Handing on the Catholic tradition
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Duffy, Eamon
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THE MASS BELLS OF NARENNA The waning of European Christianity Eamon Duffy Hor several years now my wife and I have spent part of the summer in rural Tuscany, sometimes in the picture-postcard...
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THE NEWS FROM ROME
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Melloni, Alberto
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THE NEWS FROM ROME What's wrong with church governance Alberto Mellon! Dohn Paul II has served more than twenty-five years as pope. Although he has a debilitating disease, medical progress may...
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A NEW GNOSTICISM
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Johnson, Luke Timothy
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A NEW GNOSTICISM An old threat to the church Luke Timothy Johnson Historical analogies are both tempting and tricky. They are tempting because we like to learn about the present from past...
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Why Not Say What Happens?
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Joseph, Lawrence
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Why Not Say What Happens? Lawrence Joseph I Of icons. Of divination. Of Gods. Repetitions without end. I have it in my notes, a translation from the Latin, a commentary on The Book of...
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A FUGITIVE CATHOLICISM
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Elie, Paul
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A FUGITIVE CATHOLICISM The work of Richard Rodriguez, Dave Eggers & Czeslaw Milosz Paul Elie After Czeslaw Milosz died earlier this year, it was pointed out to me that he was being eulogized...
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The Motorcycle Diaries
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva EASY RIDERS 'The Motorcycle Diaries' The Motorcycle Diaries is about a sensitive, intelligent, and doomed youth named Ernesto Guevara, and the movie itself is sensitive,...
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Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel
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Lodge, David
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BOOKS Little Miss Neverwell triumphs Giving up the Ghost A Memoir Hilary Mantel David Lodge Araham Greene was of the opinion that "the creative writer perceives his world once and for all in...
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The Missing Peace by Dennis Ross Waging Peace by Itamar Rabinovich How Israel Lost by Richard Ben Cramer
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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WHAT A MESS Margaret O'BHen Stelnfcls He had a rainy summer in my part of the country; fortunately, Dennis Ross's chronicle of failed peacemaking was at hand-all 840 pages. Anyone with a keen...
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The Dust Diaries by Owen Sheers
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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THE HEART OF AFRICA Band Richards Cooper With an ambivalence tracing back to Conrad, modern european writers portrayed Africa in extremes of innocence and violence, depravity and delight....
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For the Sake of Heaven and Earth by Irving Greenberg
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Levenson, Jon D
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CHPSEN PEOPLES Forr the sake of Heaven and Earth The New Encounter between Judaism and Christinity Irving Greenberg Jon D. Levenson Rabbi Irving Greenberg has been one of the leading figures in...
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The Gospel According to Disney by Mark I Pinsky
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Sheahen, Laura
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WHAT WOULD NICKEY DO? Laura Sheahen Bhink back. In the Disney movie The Lion King, when a baboon anoints the cub Simba and lifts him to the heavens, did you think "infant baptism"? Probably not....
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The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004 edited by Philip Zaleski
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McCarraher, Eugene
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PASSION & OBEDIENCE Eugene McCarraher In think of myself as religious but not spiritual. Partial to the sensuous, communal, and cerebral forms of ritual and text, I've always considered...
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Young blood
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Reidy, Maurice Timothy
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THE LAST WORD YOUNG BLOOD Maurice Timothy Reidy People tell me I look young. It's something I've always heard, but more so since I started working at Commonweal. I guess that people think that...
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Vol. 131 Issue 020 (November 19 2004)
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