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Vol. 133 Issue 007 (April 7 2006)
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Vol. 133 Issue 008 (April 21 2006)
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LETTERS
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Letters Adoption, politics, ensoulment & more SAME-SEX ADOPTIONS Your editorial on adoptions by gay and lesbian couples overlooks the elephant in the living room ("Abandoned Children," March...
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EDITORIAL The Wrong Punishment
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From the Editors The Wrong Punishment The federal trial of Al Qaeda opera' tive Zacarias Moussaoui, who was once thought to be the "twentieth hijacker," has entered the sentencing phase and...
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Jack Deedy, R.I.R
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Steinfels, Peter
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Farewell John Deedy, R.I.P. On March 28, John Deedy, managing editor of Commonweal from 1967 to 1978, died at age eighty-two. Jack came to Commonweal at a tense moment and in delicate...
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The Kingdom & the Flea Market
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Garvey, John
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Columnist John Garvey The Kingdom & the Flea Market WHY DO PEOPLE JOIN CHURCHES? There was a death in our parish not long ago. An old woman named Helen, who lived alone, died after a brief...
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Changing of the Guard
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Bergonzi, Bernard
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Short Takes Bernard Bergonzi Changing of the Guard REPORT FROM ENGLAND The political landscape is altering here in Britain. The major parties are changing their leaders, and the remarkable...
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Eugene McCarthy
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Eisele, Albert
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Albert Eisele Eugene McCarthy POET & PATRIOT The last time I saw Senator Eugene McCarthy, a week before his death this past December 10,1 suggested that recent history may be repeating itself....
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Agap\'e
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Furlong, Tom
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Agape How steeled am I to walk on by when I see the scream of the man in street asleep in fetal fashion, mouth agape like a fish on the beach wound down to its fins' last beat? —Tom...
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In His Own Footsteps: Benedict XVI, then & now
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Modras, Ronald
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It is important to keep in mind what was happening in the church at that time. Only a few months before Ratzinger's lectures, in July 1968, Paul VI had issued Humanae vitae, reaf-firming the ban...
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The Church & AIDS in Africa
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Alsan, Marcella
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By narrowly diagnosing AIDS as a problem of morality and by discrediting a vital component of HIV prevention [condoms], the church is advancing a remedy that is woefully inadequate. In medicine,...
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Tsotsi
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Alleva, Richard
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Screen Richard A lleva Mean Streets GAVIN HOOD'S 'TSOTSI' Tsotsi, the latest winner of the foreign-language-film Oscar (the language being a Soweto street argot called Tsotsi-taal, which...
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Cosmopolitanism by Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Westbrook, Robert
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Books Robert Westbrook Searching for Bedrock Cosmopolitanism Ethics in a World of Strangers Kwame Anthony Appiah Norton, $23.95, 196 pp. Philosophy, John Dewey said, is not knowledge but...
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The Man Everybody Knew by Richard M. Fried
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Landers, Robert K.
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Robert K. Landers God's Pitchman The Man Everybody Knew Bruce Barton and the Making of Modern America Richard M. Fried Ivan R. Dee, $27.50, 286 pp. The revelation that Jesus Christ was "the...
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Shakespeare by Peter Ackroyd
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Asquith, Clare
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Clare Asquith More Acts to Come a life of their own in the days before the election, and while FDR's catchy gibe could not be held responsible for Barton's defeat, it certainly didn't help...
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With Thankfulness & Praise
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Johnson, Luke Timothy
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The Good Word With Thankfulness & Praise Luke Timothy Johnson I can get as nostalgic as the next ex-seminarian about the worship we experienced at St. Joseph Abbey, circa 1960. Filing into the...
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