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 Vol. 136 Issue 005 (March 13 2009)
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Vol. 136 Issue 006 (March 27 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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FRANKIE & VINCE Like Peter Quinn’s uncle (“Frankie’s Secret,†February 13), my father, Vince, didn’t talk much about the First World War. He viewed with mild contempt the veterans who...
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EDITORIAL: Life & Science
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No one was shocked when President Barack Obama lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research put in place by George W. Bush. Obama was, after all, fulfilling a campaign...
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The Road to Emmaus
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Garvey, John
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Emmaus House, in New York City’s Harlem, is a communi ty of formerly homeless peo ple who serve the homeless. It was founded in the 1960s by Fr. David Kirk, a Melkite priest who became...
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More Perfect Unions: Helping workers organize
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Sinyai, Clayton
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I n 1934, as a Senate committee debated a measure to protect the right of workers to form unions, the U.S. Catholic bishops weighed in on the debate. John Burke, CSP, speaking on behalf of the...
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D87
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Perchik, Simon
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D87You spray always too far off as if the sun whose only crop is light and side to side —you tune the nozzle for that distant evening when the first plow cut open the night sky and the Earth was...
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Culture & Barbarism: Civilization & its discontents
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Eagleton, Terry
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W hy are the most unlikely people, including myself, suddenly talking about God? Who would have expected theology to rear its head once more in the technocratic twenty-first century, almost as...
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Liturgy & Reunion: One bread, one body?
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Baldovin, John F.
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T he late Methodist liturgical scholar James White once said: “Why teach ecumenism when you can teach liturgy?†White knew whereof he spoke, having taught for decades at the Perkins School of...
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The Class Wendy and Lucy
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Alleva, Richard
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However tyrannical the reign of superheroes and special effects over the box office, naturalism, even hypernaturalism, is not dead as a cinematic style. Witness two recent films. The...
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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Wren, Celia
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The rooibos tea industry is missing a terrific productplacement opportunity. HBO is launching The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, a seven-episode drama adapted from Alex ander McCall...
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Augustine and the Jews
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Senior, Donald
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A mid the bleak history of Chris-tian anti-Judaism, one extraor-dinary exception is Augustine of Hippo (354–430). His arguments on behalf of the Jews, a position that because of his towering...
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Praying for England
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Ruddy, Christopher
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F ive years ago, Diarmuid Martin,the archbishop of Dublin and acertified friend of Bono, said thatIrish Catholicism had “to move frombeing a doing church to being a listeningchurch.” He continued,...
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Sense of the Faithful
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Jordan, Patrick
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E ven before opening Sense of the Faithful, Jerome P. Baggett’s timely sociological examination of how American Catholics from six parishes in the San Francisco Bay Area understand and practice...
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Soul Searching
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Rafferty, Raymond
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F ilmmakers often must leave much good material on the cutting-room floor as they edit. Morgan Atkinson, who produced the documentary Soul Searching: The Journey of Thomas Merton, solves that...
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Say You're One of Them
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Lakeland, Paul
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F rom Enoch Emery in Wise Blood to Miles and Flora in Henry James’s Turn of the Screw, young people in fiction are often privileged interpreters of reality. Maybe it’s the absence of an...
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Via Crucis
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Nava, Margaret M.
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They first arrived from Oaxaca, Ix-tapalapa, Tzintzuntzan, and Mex-ico City. Some had green cards and visitors’ permits; others didn’t. They lived in barrios and worked in meat-packing houses and...
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