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IssueVol. 135 Issue 005 (March 14 2008)
IssueVol. 135 Issue 006 (March 28 2008)
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Paid articleLETTERS
Founded in 1924 letters Commonweal. March 28, 2008 Editor Paul Baumann Managing Editor Patrick Jordan Associate Editors Grant Gallicho, Matthew Boudway Production Editor...
Paid articleEDITORIAL : Stop It
From the Editors Stop It E arlier this month President George W. BushaddressedtheNationalReligious Broadcasters Convention. His speech offered a troubling, though familiar, defense of the...
Paid articleEDITOR'S NOTEBOOK : The Proof
Boudway, Matthew
Commonweal. March 28, 2008 Matthew Boudway The Proof REv. JoHN R. BECkER JR., SJ (1925–2008) W hen I was in college, a Catholic friend once asked me what more he could do, besides...
Paid articleThe 'New" Feminism?
Kaveny, Cathleen
Cathleen Kaveny The ‘New’ Feminism? JoHN pAUl ii & THE 1912 ENCYClopEDiA This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Mulieris digni tatem, Pope John Paul II’s apostolic letter on...
Paid articleThe Great Divide : Rethinking the military
Bacevich, Andrew J.
Commonweal. March 28, 2008 Andrew J. Bacevich The Great Divide THE CRiSiS oF U.S. MiliTARY poliCY R egardless of who wins the presidency in November 2008, rethinking the premises of...
Paid articleA Faithful Striving : The diaries of Dorothy Day
Ellsberg, Robert
A Faithful Striving The Diaries of Dorothy Day Robert Ellsberg I n her 1952 spiritual autobiography, The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day (1897– 1980)describedherearlyhabitofkeeping a diary:...
Paid articleEaster in Baghdad : On worship & politics
Dula, Peter
Easter in Baghdad Theology in the Shadow of War Peter Dula D uring Holy Week of 2004 I was in Baghdad, where I worked as coor-dinator of the Iraq program for the Mennonite Central Committee....
Paid articleLate Spring As Usual
Ponsot, Marie
After Mass, the sisters scattered to the homes of relatives or friends in the village. I went with Sr. Maria, Sr. Hanaa, and Sr. Maysan to Maria’s sister’s home for an enormous breakfast of bread,...
Paid article4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Alleva, Richard
Richard Alleva Catastrophe Looms ‘4 MoNTHS, 3 wEEkS AND 2 DAYS’ The superb Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days uses the subject of abortion the way Brokeback Mountain dealt...
Paid articleWhere Have All the Soldiers Gone?
Hillenbrand, Barry
Barry Hillenbrand Empty Trenches Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe James J. Sheehan Houghton Mifflin, $26, 304 pp. F or historians, debating...
Paid articleBridge of Sighs
Murtaugh, Daniel M.
Daniel M. Murtaugh withheld is, of course, what engages us in any fiction, but Lou’s narrative with-holdings, which clearly express his deAn Art of Dislocation fensive shyness, also increase our...
Paid articleReligion Booknotes
Cunningham, Lawrence S.
Religion Booknotes Lawrence S. Cunningham In The Decline of the Secular University, C. John Sommerville describes the power of secularization in our common culture, and then identifies...
Paid articleNote from the Good Thief
Steinfels, Peter
The last Word Note from the Good Thief Peter Steinfels S trictly speaking, Luke 23: 32, 39–43 had my story right: “When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they...
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