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 Vol. 136 Issue 019 (November 6 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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Letters ‘Sister X,’ Vatican II & women religious CORRECTION In the otherwise very fine piece by “Sister X” on the Vatican investigation of U.S. women religious, an argument was...
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EDITORIAL
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From the Editors Our Times It is customary for the editorial in an anniversary issue of Commonweal to celebrate the history of the magazine while restating the importance of its...
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A Refuge?
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Baumann, Paul
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Editor’s Notebook Paul Baumann A Refuge? CATHOLICS, THE CHURCH & THE CULTURE WARS An amusing description recently appeared in the Times Literary Supplement regarding what talents and...
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Risk and Responsibility
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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Columnist Cathleen Kaveny Risk & Responsibility WHY INSURANCE IS THE WRONG WAY TO THINK ABOUT HEALTH CARE It now seems clear that political pressures have transformed President...
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When Bigger is Better
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Nixon, J. Peter
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Short Takes J. Peter Nixon When Bigger Is Better HOW NOT TO ARGUE AGAINST HEALTH-CARE REFORM The Catholic bishops of the United States have historically been a strong voice in favor of...
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Night Light
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Mahoney, Donal
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Poetry Night Light The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teeth. He’s...
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Building on Sand
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Cavanaugh, William T.
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Short Takes William T. Cavanaugh Building on Sand THE ECONOMY & THE COMMON GOOD Our economy is based largely on fantasy, a flight from reality that has led to a series of unsustainable...
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Stumped
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Fandel, John
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Poetry Stumped I called the tree Syn-symmetry as all who saw the tree did see down to its shade symmetrical even its shadow—before its fall, all this all. Lighty Lightning took its...
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The Tightrope
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Wilkins, John
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Articles The Tightrope Loyalty, Independence & the Catholic Press John Wilkins In the Catholic media today, it is becoming harder all the time to keep a free space for public opinion...
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Keeping the Faith
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Past, Editors; Present
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Articles Keeping the Faith A Conversation with the Editors Past & Present Beginning with founding editor Michael Williams (1924–38), Commonweal has enjoyed a great deal of continuity at...
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The Informant!
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Alleva, Richard
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Screen Richard Alleva Not Quite Comedy ‘THE INFORMANT!’ The Informant! both gripped and frustrated me. This is Steven Soderbergh’s semifictional adaptation of Kurt Eichenwald’s...
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Fires of Faith
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Gregory, Brad S.
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Books Brad S. Gregory Quite Contrary Fires of Faith Catholic England under Mary Tudor Eamon Duffy Yale University Press, $28.50, 280 pp. Eamon Duffy is perhaps best known to...
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The Future Church
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Jordan, Patrick
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Books Patrick Jordan Cloudy Crystal Ball The Future Church How Ten Trends Are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church John L. Allen Jr. Doubleday, $28, 480 pp. John Allen is the most...
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Dancing in the Dark
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Castronovo, David
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Books David Castronovo Facing the Music Dancing in the Dark A Cultural History of the Great Depression Morris Dickstein W. W. Norton, $29.95, 624 pp. Many a baby boomer was...
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Modes of Faith
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Rosengarten, Richard A.
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Books Richard A. Rosengarten The Unquenchable Thirst Modes of Faith Secular Surrogates for Lost Religious Belief Theodore Ziolkowski The University of Chicago Press, $35, 296 pp....
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We Get to Carry Each Other
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Clapp, Rodney
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Books Rodney Clapp Pro Bono We Get to Carry Each Other The Gospel According to U2 Greg Garrett Westminster John Knox Press, $16.95, 176 pp. Stereotypical rock stars use...
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A relic
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Callahan, Sidney
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The Last Word A Relic Sidney Callahan We are moving and have been cleaning out our overstuffed files. As I sorted through one pile, ready to toss it out, I happened to find a letter...
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Vol. 136 Issue 020 (November 20 2009)
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