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 Vol. 136 Issue 007 (April 10 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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CATHOLICS & JEWS TOGETHER? Fr. John R. Donahue’s thoughtful article “Trouble Ahead: The Future of Catholic-Jewish Relations” (March 13) lays great stress on an affirmation of the late Pope John...
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EDITORIAL: Obama & Notre Dame
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“There are some ideas and some causes that a Catholic college campus cannot treat pleasantly,†wrote the outraged editors. “Doesn’t deliberate opposition to Catholic social doctrine come...
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Parched
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McGowan, Jo
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Last month I attended a confer ence in Delhi. I arrived late at night and went straight to bed. When I got up the next morning, I was sur prised to discover that just beyond the boundary...
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Suffering, Silence & Holy Week
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Boudway, Matthew
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In the face of an atrocity, the comforts of prayer and piety can look not only empty but obscene. This was always true, but after the Holocaust it became a truism. Primo Levi, one of the best...
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Discredited
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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In the last act of Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore, one character, sitting amid gore and dead bodies, moans, “Worse and worse and worse this story gets!” And so it seems with the...
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Survivor Stories
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Rosenberg, Randall S.
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Johannes Baptist Metz warned fellow theologians not to divorce talk about God from the realities of their times. Reflecting on the twentieth century, Metz wrote that the horrors of Auschwitz made...
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Virgil & the Vigil
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Ferrone, Rita
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With so many scientists, beekeepers, and agricultural stakeholders in a lather over “colony collapse disorder”—the mysterious phenomenon that is causing the disappearance of millions of honeybees...
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Flies
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Cadnum, Michael
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Flies We’ve ceased trying to kill these grimy comedians, surrendering to the ricochet blur first thing in the morning, the inquisitive hmmm? in the still-dark kitchen. We begin to...
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The Paschal Cure
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Imbelli, Robert
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In an exchange with the U.S. bishops during his apostolic visit to the United States last April, Pope Benedict offered the following challenge: “It is becoming more and more difficult in our...
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Faith in Globalization: The Blair project at Yale
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Bugyis, Eric
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Tony Blair’s students no longer laugh when he is introduced as “Professor Blair.” Even Blair seems significantly more comfortable with the title than he was in September 2008, when the former...
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The Earthly City: Saving democracy from capitalism
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McCarraher, Eugene
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“What has Washington to do with Jerusalem?” After eight years of faith-based hubris and folly under George W. Bush, “far too much” would be one answer to Charles Mathewes’s opening question in A...
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In the Heights West Side Story
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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W hen he was asked to write the lyrics for the 1957 musical West Side Story, the young Stephen Sondheim reportedly protested, “I’ve never even known a Puerto Rican!” He took the job in the end,...
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Three Generations,No Imbeciles & In Reckless Hands
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Lauritzen, Paul
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I n 1924, Carrie Buck was seventeen years old, unwed, and pregnant. The man who had raped and impregnated her was the nephew of her foster parents. Fearing the consequences of his actions, both for...
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Beyond Compare
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Fredericks, James L.
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I n the fall of 2000, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a declaration titled Dominus Iesus, reaffirming the uniqueness of Jesus Christ and the centrality of the church in the...
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Wage Theft in America
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Greenhouse, Steven
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A s a child growing up in Massapequa—the Long Island suburb where Jerry Seinfeld and Alec Baldwin were raised—I always viewed my community as patriotic and law-abiding. Ron Kovic, the crippled...
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Diary of a Bad Year
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Wheeler, Edward T.
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T he South African writer and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee made his name in the 1980s with Waiting for the Barbarians and The Life and Times of Michael K, darkly elliptical fables that answered the...
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Blind Spot
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Moses, Paul
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T his book makes the case that news organizations often fail in covering major stories because they minimize or misunderstand underlying religious issues. It’s an argument I’ve long sympathized...
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The Question
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Callanan, Liam
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A pril is the cruelest month for college English departments, and not just because we’re fans of T. S. Eliot (yes, he still gets taught, if occasionally—Shakespeare, too, if we can fit him...
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Vol. 136 Issue 008 (April 24 2009)
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