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Founded in 1924 Letters Commonweal. January 31, 2008 Editor Paul Baumann Managing Editor Patrick Jordan Associate Editors Grant Gallicho, Matthew Boudway Production Editor...
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From the Editors Voting Early & Often
T rying to determine what is significant in the results and controversies of the early presidential primaries and caucuses is simply impossible. By...
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Jo McGowan Pious Carnage THE RisE OF HinDu FunDamEnTalism in inDia Recent reports from postelec tion Kenya, particularly of the burning of a church packed with Kikuyu women and...
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Susan Nagele Election Chaos a report from kenya B enson stood in line for five hours on December 27 to vote for Kenya’s next president. He is a construction worker at the small Catholic...
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Virgilio Elizondo Collaborative Theology
latin american bishops, the pope & the poor A parecida is the most important Marian shrine in Brazil. Last May it was also the site of the fifth...
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Human & Divine
Did Jesus Have Faith?
Luke Timothy Johnson J ust over a year ago, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) issued a notification concerning certain elements in...
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Cottonwoods A century ago in North Dakota, when my mother’s father was a boy, a homesteader was grateful when a cottonwood appeared at the edge of sight—eighty feet into the prairie sky, its...
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Rand Richards Cooper Life & Death
‘JunO’ & ‘swEEnEy TODD’ I first heard about Jason Reit man’s quirkily bighearted film Juno from an unlikely source: Rush Limbaugh. The maven of...
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Stephen J. Pope Too Big a Tent?
Twentieth Century Catholic Theologians From Neoscholasticism to Nuptial Mysticism Fergus Kerr Blackwell, $29.95, 240 pp. A s the editor of the...
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William L. Portier decrees. O’Connor’s story serves Barron as a parable for the sense of competition The Way Ahead
The Priority of Christ Toward a Postliberal Catholicism Robert Barron...
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Valerie Sayers ous white houses listening to Schubert. TheymayknowtheirMartinLutherKing speeches by heart, but their immediate False Start world, right down to their religious icons, is white,...
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The Last Word
Reading with Jesús by Philip Brasfield J esús doesn’t read well. I sit with him on a Tuesday afternoon as he slowly works his way though the week’s catechism lesson. When...
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