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Paid articleLETTERS
Just war, teaching self-defense, getting past the don’ts & more MORE CONVENIENT THAN JUST Justus George Lawler was much too charitable to George Weigel on the issue of traditional Catholic...
Paid articleEDITORIAL: Truth & Consequences
From the Editors Truth & Consequences In May 2004, shortly after the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, President George W. Bush defended America’s image on the Arabiclanguage news channel Al...
Paid articleCOMMENT: Ressourcement & Shoes of the Fisherman
RESSOURCEMENT Commonweal regularly published fiction from the 1920s into the 1950s, including work by Graham Greene and an entire novella by Evelyn Waugh, “Love among the Ruins” (July 31, 1953)....
Paid articleToo Much Information
Garvey, John
John Garvey Too Much Information Meditating on distraction When I was in high school, teachers emphasized the need to be “well informed,” to read newspapers—that was essential to being...
Paid articleTemperate Zone
White, Robert E.
Robert E. White Temperate Zone Obama & Latin America At the Fifth Summit of the Americas last month, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela seemed to be everywhere. The New York Times...
Paid articleSimple Lives
Raber, Jean Hughes
Jean Hughes Raber Simple Lives A NEW BEGINNING FOR THE BEGUINES? Recent news stories highlighting a growing trend among single women to form intentional communities along spiritual or...
Paid articleHow Is the Bible True?
Johnson, Luke Timothy
How Is the Bible True? Let Me Count the Ways Luke Timothy Johnson It seems an obvious thing to say that Christians read the Bible in order to search for truth; that we do not read these...
Paid articleNotes on the Pentateuch
Chmielarz, Sharon
Notes on the Pentateuch Genesis: The Accident There she was. Eve. She’d eaten the apple, bought a car and drove it with gusto. Slam! She didn’t see Him coming. Well, it was His fault, too....
Paid articleMeeting a 'Monster'
Nugent, Robert
Meeting a 'Monster' Visiting a Priest Behind Bars Robert Nugent Matthew’s Gospel, the source of the Catholic “corporal works of mercy,” includes “visiting the imprisoned,” probably the...
Paid articleState of Play
Cooper, Rand Richards
Rand Richards Cooper Late Edition 'STATE OF PLAY' As I write this it is 7:37 a.m., and I’ve just finished reading the morning paper. I started at 7:31 a.m. And I’m no speed reader....
Paid articleKing of the Bowery
Quinn, Peter
Peter Quinn Who's the Boss? King of the Bowery Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era Richard F. Welch Fairleigh Dickinson University...
Paid articleThe Great Inflation and Its Aftermath
MORRIS, CHARLES R.
Charles R. Morris Oops The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath The Past and Future of American Affluence Robert J. Samuelson Random House, $26, 311pp. Book publishing schedules are...
Paid articleActs of Conscience
Schneider, Nathan
Nathan Schneider The Original Peaceniks Acts of Conscience Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy Joseph Kip Kosek Columbia University Press, $50, 376 pp. In his new...
Paid articleOn the Margins of the World
Hafvenstein, Joel
Joel Hafvenstein Stranded On the Margins of the World The Refugee Experience Today Michel Agier Polity, $49.95,152 pp. Michel Agier, director of research at the Institut de...
Paid articleThe Final Hunger
Savant, John
The Final Hunger John Savant Everything in nature, I’m beginning to believe, discovers its destiny in its hungers, defines its nature in that which alone can answer to its profoundest...
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