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 Vol. 136 Issue 021 (December 4 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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 LETTERS
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Letters The independent Catholic press, health-care reform SLAVE OR FREE? It’s clear that John Wilkins holds the independent Catholic press in high regard (“The Tightrope,” November 6)....
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EDITORIAL
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From the Editors Terrorists on Trial How should “enemy combatants” captured and imprisoned by the United States in the so-called war on terror be brought to justice? Should they be...
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85TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY
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85th Anniversary Party Three hundred gregarious, generous, and astonishingly attractive people gathered at Pier Sixty in Manhattan on the night of October 19 to celebrate the...
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The End of Homelessness?
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Henneberger, Melinda
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Columnists Melinda Henneberger The End of Homelessness? WISHFUL THINKING IN SACRAMENTO The good news: Sacramento is ending homelessness! Not so good: They’re accomplishing this...
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Parish Councils
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Nonomen, Fr.
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Fr. Nonomen Parish Councils LET GOD DECIDE I’m not sure exactly when I began dreading parish-council meetings, those monthly assemblies of parish staff, elected parishioners, and...
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The Public Option
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Moses, Paul
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Short Take Paul Moses The Public Option WILL CATHOLIC SCHOOLS BECOME CHARTER SCHOOLS? Is converting Catholic schools into charter schools better than letting them close? In a growing...
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Mayflies
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Sternlieb, Barry
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Poetry Mayflies As an ancient breed of darkness from the creek suddenly swirls into long maple light, they ignore the change and mate on the wing filling the sky like revelation blind...
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Maximus's Mary
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Cunneen, Sally
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Article Maximus’s Mary A Minister, Not Just an Icon Sally Cunneen Could the Mother of Jesus have had a greater role in the mission, Passion, and Resurrection of her son than the...
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Two Poems
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Poreba, Elizabeth
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Poetry Two Poems by Elizabeth Poreba In him you are being built together. —Ephesians 2:22 That I, a voluntary and contented recluse, who never picks up the phone, who hoards the hours...
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A Serious Man An Education
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Alleva, Richard
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Screen Richard Alleva Building Characters ‘A SERIOUS MAN’ & ‘AN EDUCATION’ I think it was The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) that made me vow never again to see anything made by the Coen...
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Christmas Critics
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Boudway, Matthew
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Christmas Critics Matthew Boudway The poets Samuel Menashe, Jack Gilbert, and W. S. Merwin are now all in their eighties. Their reputations secure, their voices assured, they are free...
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Neff, David
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Christmas Critics David Neff Every day I hear stories of religious people who feel called to resist current cultural vectors. Their efforts often target government or politicians. Their acts...
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DePietro, Thomas
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Christmas Critics Thomas DePietro The ghost of the Twin Towers continues to haunt the literary imagination. First there was Don DeLillo’s Falling Man (2007), in many ways still the best...
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Callanan, Liam
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Christmas Critics Liam Callanan Ilive in the Old West—that is to say, Milwaukee, where the quite sincerely named corporation Northwestern Mutual was founded one hundred and fifty years...
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Veillette-Stonehart, Jo-Ann
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Christmas Critics Jo-Ann Veillette-Stonehart The world F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicled in The Great Gatsby, with its privilege, anxiety, and despair, has a contemporary resonance— and with...
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Re-oriented
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Gaillardetz, Richard R.
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The Last Word Re-oriented Richard R. Gaillardetz Much is being made of rumors that the Vatican will soon issue a decree mandating that the priest celebrate the Mass ad...
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Vol. 136 Issue 022 (December 18 2009)
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