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 Vol. 135 Issue 003 (February 15 2008)
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Vol. 135 Issue 004 (February 29 2008)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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Founded in 1924 letters Commonweal. February 29, 2008 Editor Paul Baumann Managing Editor Patrick Jordan Associate Editors Grant Gallicho, Matthew Boudway Production...
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EDITORIAL : Taking Stock
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From the Editors Taking Stock
N o one seems to know whether we are now heading into a recession or are already in one. But for good reason the economy has become the dominant issue in the...
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Clinton v. Obama
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Henneberger, Melinda
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Melinda Henneberger Clinton v. Obama HOW A CORONATiON BECAME A CONTEST Hillary Clinton has often ben efited from the general aw fulness of the sort of luna tic critics who fill my...
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Unfinished Business : Welfare reform
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Massaro, Thomas
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Commonweal. February 29, 2008 Thomas Massaro Unfinished Business
REviSiTiNG WELFARE REFORM W hat ever happened to welfare reform? Our nation’s financial assistance to low-income (and...
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Country Midnight/Soft Rain
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GREEN, PETE
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Commonweal. February 29, 2008 Country Midnight / Soft Rain The dogs yip and whine to be let in. Frogs burp happily happy that Heaven is a pond. I cough and cough with a summer cold let the dogs...
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The Empty Box : Confessions of a confessor
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Mann, Raymond C.
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Raymond C. Mann The Empty Box WHY CATHOLiCS SkiP CONFESSiON I heard eight confessions this morning. For one hour, facing a small crucifix in a spartan room, I listened to the ordinary...
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'Become All Fire'
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Garvey, John
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‘Become All Fire’
The Splendor of Orthodox Spirituality
John Garvey M y wife and I visited Amsterdam a couple of years ago. Her time was taken up with business, and my days were spent...
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Out of Great Silence
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PEASE, WILLIAM J.
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Out of Great Silence
A Carthusian Interlude
William J. Pease D oes it qualify as a Jungian convergence that two books about the Carthusians(An Infinity of Little Hours by Nancy Klein Maguire,...
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Daughter Scar
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Osborne-McKnight, Juilene
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Commonweal. February 29, 2008 Daughter Scar I’m wearing Jacob’s ladder —the selfsame rungs that oncewere strung with angels.Among them Jacob clambered,thrust his arms through cumuli,captured a...
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A Cloud of Witnesses
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Friend-Jones, Gilbert
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A Cloud of Witnesses Thoughts on an Abbey Cemetery Gilbert Friend-Jones W henIreturntoSaintJohn’sAbbey in Minnesota, I always spend a few quiet hours at the cemetery. I knew few of the...
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Presence
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Meyer, William
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Commonweal. February 29, 2008 Presence Miss Kitty sits in the study window —the light lies on her fur. Are you washed in the blood of Iraq? Tuffy comes home from roaming the darkened earth,...
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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Alleva, Richard
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Richard Alleva Locked In ‘THE DiviNG BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY’ While watching The Diving Bell and the Butterfly it came home to me more clearly than ever that literature strains...
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The Florist's Daughter, Swimming in a Sea of Death
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Margaret O’Brien Steinfels A Tale of Two Mothers
The Florist’s Daughter Patricia Hampl Harcourt, $24, 240 pp. Swimming in a Sea of Death A Son’s Memoir David Rieff Simon &...
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Vatican II
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O'Malley, John W.
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about her first cancer at age forty-two: John W. O’Malley “The statistics only get you so far. There are always people on the tail end of the Group Dynamics curve. They survive miraculously,...
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Created for Joy
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Loxterkamp, David
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David Loxterkamp To the Bone
Created for Joy A Christian View of Suffering Sidney Callahan Crossroad, $19.95, 256 pp. S idney Callahan begins her fifth book with these celebrated...
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Inner Workings
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Meyers, Jeffrey
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Lucid, Generous & Humane Jeffrey Meyers al range” bring the little-known Belgian writer Hugo Claus “into the first rank of European poets of the late twentieth century.” Similarly, Samuel...
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Gangster Priest
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Garvey, Michael O.
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the Nazis. On September 27, 1940, the City of Benares, carrying ninety children to Canada, was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat, killing nearly three hundred passengers and crew. Orwell alludes...
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American Carnival
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Raber, Jean Hughes
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Commonweal. February 29, 2008 God and GloBalization: Volume 4 Globalization and Grace Max L. Stackhouse This is the fourth volume in the series God and Globalization, sponsored by the Center of...
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Religion Booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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Religion Booknotes
Lawrence S. Cunningham When as a young neophyte Augustine asked Ambrose, the bishop of Milan, what part of the Bible he should start with, Ambrose answered, “Isaiah.” That...
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Bare Ruined Choirs
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RIPPINGER, JOEL
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The last Word
Bare Ruined Choirs Joel Rippinger A s a monk who has lived for almost forty years in a Benedictine monastery, I have had this recurring thought: Monasteries of men and women...
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