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 Vol. 135 Issue 007 (April 11 2008)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Founded in 1924 letters Commonweal. April 11, 2008 Editor Paul Baumann Managing Editor Patrick Jordan Associate Editors Grant Gallicho, Matthew Boudway Production Editor...
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EDITORIAL : Bad Connection
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From the Editors Bad Connection
S ince 9/11, Congress has acceded to nearly every administration demand when it came to weighing civil liber-ties against intelligence-gathering in the...
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Shell Game
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Pfaff, William
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William Pfaff Shell Game ThE SUbPRIME MORTGAGE SWINDLE Commonweal. April 11, 2008 The international reaction to the present credit crisis, the most serious since 1929, re veals a...
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Touching the Untouchables
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McGowan, Jo
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Jo McGowan Touching the Untouchables
ThE LIFE OF bAbA AMTE When Baba Amte died here in India in February, at the age of ninety-three, he was re membered as the champion of people...
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They're Getting Warmer : Environmentalism & the election
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Peñalver, Eduardo
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Eduardo Peñalver They’re Getting Warmer RELIGION, POLITICS & CLIMATE ChANGE I n past elections, voting guides for Catholics, written from both ends of the political spectrum, have...
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Mystery or Mystification? : On saying the Old Mass
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Sloyan, Gerard S.
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Gerard S. Sloyan Mystery or Mystification?
ThE LIMITS OF LATIN IN ThE LITURGY A couple of years ago I received two requests. The first: to preside at a Latin novus ordo Mass, the...
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King Lear Had Alzheimer's
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Murray, Les
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but that it profited no one else. He granted that speaking in tongues could engage the spirit, but it left the mind barren. In contrast, the one who prayed in comprehensible speech did a service to...
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Why Not? : Women & ordination
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Egan, Robert J.
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Why Not?
Scripture, History & Women’s Ordination
Robert J. Egan W hyarewomenexcludedfrombeing deacons, presbyters, and bishops in the Catholic Church? Are the reasons given reasonable and...
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Sealed In, Yet Soaring : Lives of solitary piety
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Stern, Christina
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Sealed In, Yet Soaring
Anchoresses in the Middle Ages
Christina Stern I n Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris (known also as The Hunchback of Notre Dame), there is a chapter called...
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The Counterfeiters
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Alleva, Richard
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Richard Alleva Behind Enemy Lines
‘ThE COUNTERFEITERS’ The opening scenes of the Oscar-winning Austrian film The Counterfeiters take us to Monte Carlo right after World War II....
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After God
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PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
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Bernard G. Prusak The Lord & Taylor
After God Mark C. Taylor University of Chicago Press, $35, 416 pp. W hen I was a student at Williams College in the 1990s, Professor Mark C....
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After Forty Years, Vatican II
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Tilley, Terrence W.
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Hegel and for Taylor too, “the world is Terrence W. Tilley really the self-embodiment of God, and thus, whatever exists is an incarnation of Aggiornamento Adjourned divine reality.” But if (and...
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The Really Hard Problem
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Griffiths, Paul J.
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Commonweal. April 11, 2008 Paul J. Griffiths Material Guy
The Really Hard Problem Meaning in a Material World Owen Flanagan MIT Press, $27.95, 288 pp. P hilosophers of mind...
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Quest for the Living God
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O'Brien, Dennis
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Dennis O’Brien its immediate aftermath. Jürgen MoltmannwitnessedthefirebombingofHamburg and lived as a prisoner of war. These Beyond Utterance experiences led him to develop a...
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Creation and Covenant
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Mansini, Guy
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between Christianity and other world Guy Mansinireligions in the chapter, “Generous God of the Religions.” Johnson describes atBody Language tending a Catholic Mass that made use of certain...
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Communication and Otherness
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Garvey, John
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John Garvey Here below, in a fallen world, we feel threatened by all otherness. We identify difference with division, Zizioulas writes, Difference without Division and “when difference becomes...
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Exit Plan
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Mueller, W. E.
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The last Word
Commonweal. April 11, 2008 Exit Plan W. E. Mueller L et’s face it, we all negotiate with God. When we’re stricken with an illness, or have a child in...
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Vol. 135 Issue 008 (April 25 2008)
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