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Vol. 136 Issue 009 (May 8 2009)
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Vol. 136 Issue 010 (May 22 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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LETTERS
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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...
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EDITORIAL: Truth & Consequences
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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...
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COMMENT: Ressourcement & Shoes of the Fisherman
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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)....
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Too Much Information
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Garvey, John
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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...
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Temperate Zone
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White, Robert E.
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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...
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Simple Lives
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Raber, Jean Hughes
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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...
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How Is the Bible True?
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Johnson, Luke Timothy
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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...
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Notes on the Pentateuch
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Chmielarz, Sharon
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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....
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Meeting a 'Monster'
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Nugent, Robert
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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...
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State of Play
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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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....
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King of the Bowery
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Quinn, Peter
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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...
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The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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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...
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Acts of Conscience
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Schneider, Nathan
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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...
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On the Margins of the World
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Hafvenstein, Joel
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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...
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The Final Hunger
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Savant, John
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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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