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 Vol. 136 Issue 007 (April 10 2009)
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Vol. 136 Issue 008 (April 24 2009)
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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Stem-cells, shared Eucharist, teachers old & new HELPING HAND Thank you for your editorial "Life & Science" (March 27). I am a full-time MDiv student in the Boston area, and I work as an...
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EDITORIAL: Remember Iraq?
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President Barack Obama made an unannounced trip to Iraq earlier this month as an adjunct to his well-received diplomatic stops across Europe and Turkey. Speaking to hundreds of cheering...
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COMMENT: Tragic Consequences More, Please
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TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES Recent weeks have seen an alarming outbreak of gun violence in the United States. The April 3 massacre in Binghamton, New York, was particularly horrifying: Jiverly Wong, a...
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Consumed by Zeal
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Pfaff, William
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One might have thought that the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States had for the moment offered the chance of a settlement of the country's great issues. Far from it....
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The Vatican & Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
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May, William E.
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The February 13 issue of Commonweal featured an article by the Consortium of Jesuit Bioethics Programs, "Undue Burden? The Vatican & Artificial Nutrition and Hydration." The article needs to be...
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Consortium of Jesuit Bioethics Programs
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We thank William E. May for his response to our article "Undue Bürden?" in the February 13 Commonweal. His main criticisms reinforce key points that we were trying to make. First, we agree with...
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Phantom Heresies
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Lawler, Justus George
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Classical theological terms like "the economy of Salvation" or "the economy of Redemption" have expanded their range of late, gaining resonance from our current preoccupation with the actual...
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Thou Shalt
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Fullam, Lisa
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Go into any gym and you'll see people improving themselves. The woman on the biceps machine is building strength in that muscle, perfecting her natural attribute by practicing a range of...
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Best-Practicing Catholics
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McDonough, Peter
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A purchasing agent for the Archdiocese of New York is convicted in a $2million kickback scheme. A priest supports his opulent lifestyle by pilfering $1.3 million. Another squirrels away...
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Childhood
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Siegel, Joan I.
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Childhood Reuters Photo: Indian Girl The New York Times (April 22, 2001) When will you come, Monkey God, protector of children— swoop from the mountain, carry her home? Eyes scrape the...
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Now on DVD
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Alleva, Richard
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A movie seems to take on a new life when it reappears on DVD. It gets re-reviewed, though only briefly, in little rectangular boxes in newspapers and entertainment magazines. Even the...
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Stumbling Blocks
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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In recognizing Israel on May 14, 1948, President Harry Truman set in motion an alliance that has endured for sixty years. That alliance has brought security to Israel but not peace—nor will...
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Reforming the Liturgy
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Ferrone, Rita
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This thoughtful and judicious book by a prominent American liturgical scholar reports on and evaluates several now familiar critiques of the reform of Catholic liturgy promulgated...
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The Lazarus Project
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Ramos, Santiago
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In the fiction of Aleksandar Hemon, the dramatic tension lies not within one story but between competing stories. There is always a bigger story, properly called history, and a smaller one,...
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Pulling Punches
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Duncan, Christopher
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I took a long look at my ten-year-old son yesterday. By most measures, he’s turning out just fine. Lean and muscular, he eats well, plays hard, reads beyond his grade level, and is a whiz at...
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