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 Vol. 132 Issue 007 (April 8 2005)
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Vol. 132 Issue 008 (April 22 2005)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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7. o o Founded in 1924 Commonweal Editor Paul Baumann Managing Editor Patrick Jordan Associate Editors Grant Gallicho, Maurice Timothy Reidy Production Editor & Webmaster Tiina...
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Editorial
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From the Editors Peter's Successor p ope John Paul II was a force of nature, a man of iron will and passionate spirituality, who was also blessed with a quick wit, a magnetic personality, and...
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Et Cetera
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r r .< O O ET CETERA WILSON CAREY McWlLLIAMS, R.I.P. A s Commonweal was absorbing the fact of John Paul lI's passing, we received the sad news of the sudden death, at seventy-one, of our...
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Something Does Not Love Us
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Garvey, John
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]ohn arvey Something Does Not Love Us THE REALITY OF EVIL Evil is a word that disturbs most of us. Secular people are put off by its theological overtones; many religious people are...
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Being & Doing
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Pfaff, William
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~q Ca that the line between good and evil runs through every human heart, and it is essential for us to keep this before us every time we use the word. Last month's tragedy on the Red...
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Looking Ahead
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Gaillardetz, Richard R.
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Kennan was, all of his professional life, an enemy of foreign policy set out in moralizing terms or professing a moral objective: crusades for freedom, making the world safe for democracy,...
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After Reading Stein a certain Truth Comes Out
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Jager, Katharine
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Two Poems by Katharine Jager On the Relative States of Alienation ( w i t h a line from Hamlet) Ophelia tells him, I think nothing, suggests he cannot, will not, see. Though absence...
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Sex & the Seminaries
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Cozzens, Donald
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Donald Cozzens Sex & the Seminaries WHAT REALLY AILS THEM L ater this year, the Vatican is expected to begin an apostolic visitation of U.S. seminaries. The visitation comes in the wake of...
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John Paul II
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Dallavalle, Nancy A.
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John Paul II Assessing His Legacy T he death of John Paul II, and the outpouring of affection and admiration it has brought forth from every comer of the globe, has reminded all of us what...
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John Paul II
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Hauerwas, Stanley
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-< living color; Catholicism as institutional life badly needs another trip to make-up. Yet it is precisely this institution as institution that needs to exemplify "catholic" integrity. Early...
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John Paul II
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McBrien, Richard P.
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in the world was the attempt to resist any suggestion that the church is an invisible reality. If Christianity is connections, this was a pope who connected. He was able to make connections...
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John Paul II
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Greenberg, Irving
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ers and theologians of other Christian churches to enter into dialogue with him about the manner in which his office is exercised and to recommend ways in which its exercise might conform more...
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John Paul II
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Tilley, Terrence W.
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Terrence W. Tilley n life, John Paul II evoked powerful reactions. Books by George Weigel and John Comwell represent sophisticated versions of those reactions. In Witness to Hope, Weigel was...
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John Paul II
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FOREST, JIM
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Terrence W. Tilley n life, John Paul II evoked powerful reactions. Books by George Weigel and John Comwell represent sophisticated versions of those reactions. In Witness to Hope, Weigel was...
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Doubt
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Gallicho, Grant
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rant allicho The Cost of Justice JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY'S 'DOUBT' laywrights and screenwriters have had a several years to mine the clergy sexual-abuse scandal, but it is only with John...
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The Office
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Wren, Celia
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Im eq o because this exchange has a comedic bent. But they reveal something important about the characters: the hint of predatory menace in Flynn's pointed inquiry about the other nun's...
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Collected Poems, 1943-2004
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Pritchard, William H.
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William H. Pritchard A Master e-t e-i ,g< -< O O Collected Poems 1943-2004 Richard Wilbur Harcourt, $35,608 pp. n his introductory note to this handsome and in every sense weighty...
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Bethlehem Besieged
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Gaffney, Edward McGlynn Jr.
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writing in England bears comparison with any of these three). Yet although his genius as a maker of rhyme and stanza or the sheer inventiveness of his way with words has been conceded, some...
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On Apology
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Callahan, Sidney
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q~ r 0 0 Sidney Callahan Say It Like You Mean It On Apology Aaron Lazare Oxford University Press, $24, 306 pp. ho's sorry now? And will they apologize successfully? Dr. Aaron Lazare,...
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Ashes to Ashes
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Doyle, Brian
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The Last Word Ashes to Ashes Brian Doyle H er name was Vikki. She was fifty-four years old. She lived alone in a little house on our hill. Her house was so reticent and mossy and...
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