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 Vol. 136 Issue 017 (October 9 2009)
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Vol. 136 Issue 018 (October 23 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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Letters The Crusades, ethics experts, the priest shortage, etc. FRANCIS & THE FIFTH CRUSADE Thank you for Paul Moses’s article on St. Francis of Assisi and Sultan al-Kamil (“Mission...
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EDITORIAL
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From the Editors Stimulate Despite the stabilization of the financial markets, a rising stock market, and what appears to be modest growth in the economy as a whole, unemployment rose to...
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COMMENT
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Comment WHERE THERE IS DOUBT… “I’m sure you will be flooded by letters from pedants, so let me be the first,” wrote one subscriber upon receiving the September 25 Commonweal. “The St. Francis...
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Trickle Down
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McGowan, Jo
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Columnists Jo McGowan Trickle Down CONSERVATION IS NOT JUST A PRIVATE VIRTUE There is a scene from Andrew Sorkin’s TV series The West Wing, now on DVD, in which two characters...
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Nobel Nastiness
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Dionne, E.J. Jr.
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E. J. Dionne Jr. Nobel Nastiness HOW OBAMA CAN SILENCE HIS CRITICS It is a sign of our weird political moment that the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama will probably...
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Feeding the Hungry
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Nonomen, Fr.
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Fr. Nonomen Feeding the Hungry A LOOK AT THE COMMUNION LINE Whenever I read an article that advocates refusing the Eucharist to people whose public politics conflict with church...
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Secular Sabbath
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IMPASTATO, DAVID
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Article Secular Sabbath Unbelief in Ian McEwan’s Fiction David Impastato Over the past two decades, few writers have charmed as many critics and readers as the British novelist Ian...
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Vermeer at the Met
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O'Donovan, Leo J.
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Art Leo J. O’Donovan An Eternal Now VERMEER AT THE MET Is there anyone who cares for painting and does not love Johannes Vermeer (1632–75)? The light of days long gone streaming through...
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Lit
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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Fall Books Mollie Wilson O’Reilly Catching Fire Lit Mary Karr Harper, $25.99, 386 pp. Mary Karr’s career as a memoirist began in the aftermath of a fire. When she was seven years...
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Justice
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Galston, William A.
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William A. Galston The Limits of Neutrality Justice What’s the Right Thing to Do? Michael J. Sandel Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25, 320 pp. Academically inclined readers familiar with...
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The Hawk and the Dove
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Steinfels, Margaret P'Brein
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Margaret O’Brien Steinfels Odd Couple The Hawk and the Dove Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War Nicholas Thompson Henry Holt, $27.50, 416 pp. The Hawk and the Dove...
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Wolf Hall
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Lethbridge, Lucy
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Lucy Lethbridge A Man for This Season Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel Henry Holt, $27, 560 pp. Among the protagonists in the pageant of English history, the Tudors are generally painted in lurid...
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Generosity
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Domestico, Anthony
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Anthony Domestico Pointless Counterpoint Generosity An Enhancement Richard Powers Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25, 296 pp. Richard Powers is that rare fiction writer more concerned with...
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Jubilant Haste
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Douglas, Deborah Smith
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The Last Word Jubilant Haste Deborah Smith Douglas A few years ago, I began mixing up my walking regimen with intervals of running, working my slow way up to running a mile at a time, and...
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