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 Vol. 136 Issue 009 (May 8 2009)
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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HISTORY & THE CRUCIFIXION Thank you for Peter Manseau's penetrating critique of Christian theodicies that too facilely appropriate the suffering of others ("Catholics & the Shoah," March 13),...
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EDITORIAL : Seeking Justice
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In the homily at his April 15 installation Mass, New York's new Archbishop Timothy Dolan candidly acknowledged the many challenges facing the church, including the priest shortage and the...
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The Right to Refuse
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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Do health-care providers have a right to refuse to be involved in medical procedures that they believe to be immoral? If so, how broad is that right? These are the questions raised by the...
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Bombs Away
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Powaski, Ronald E.
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During his campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama promised to make the goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons a central element of his administration's nuclear policy. Now, in his proposed...
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Messy Love
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Higgins, Michael W.
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The Globe and Mail is the Canadian equivalent of the New York Times. It is a Toronto-based paper (one of four), but it shares the same spot in the national consciousness as the Times, and...
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To the Visible World
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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Iknew that someday I would find myself writing this essay. I just didn't think it would be yet. If you'd put money on which American writer of the postwar generation would be blessed with...
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Wind
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Uplike, John
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Wind If God has any voice it is the wind. Women hate this seeking of a vacuum, it gets their edges up, they cannot sleep, they think of Boreas impregnating primeval Night, of skirts rudely...
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Borderline
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Robinson, Ananda Rose
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Throughout recorded history, people have migrated in search of a better life. They have walked jaw-dropping distances, across ice and desert, mountains and valleys, jungles and plains, hoping...
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Sin Nombre Duplicity
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Alleva, Richard
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The more movie gangsters change, the more they stay the same. In the 1930s they were Irish (The Public Enemy) and Italian (Little Caesar, Paul Muni's Scarface). Since then, the hoods have...
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Kings
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Wren, Celia
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It's extreme-makeover time for a portion of the Old Testament—and the results are pretty swanky. Kings, a recently launched NBC drama, sets the story of David and Saul in a...
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Irena's Vow
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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When Irene Gut Opdyke, a Polish Catholic, immigrated to the United States in 1949, she was not yet thirty years old. Like so many Europeans who had survived the horrors of the Second World...
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Practicing Catholic
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Carroll, James
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James Carroll is nothing if not ambitious as a writer, and in Practicing Catholic he has given us at least three books for the price of one. That is an attractive offer during a miserable...
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The House of Wittgenstein
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Waugh, Alexander
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The mystery, glamour, and romance that surround the name Ludwig Wittgenstein are now part of our intellectual heritage. There were arguably a dozen other thinkers in the twentieth century who...
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Atheist Delusions
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Hart, David Bentley
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When St. Peter heard the cock crow early on the morning of the first Good Friday, the synoptic Gospels tell us that he went out and wept bitterly. "We are the heirs of a culture that, in a...
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Flannery
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Gooch, Brad
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At the beginning of her novel The Violent Bear It Away, Flannery O'Connor describes a wild backwoods prophet, Old Tarwater, reading an article about himself written by his nephew, Rayber. A...
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Foote's Feat
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BURKHART, MARIAN
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In play after play, Horton Foote, who died in March at the age of ninety-two, made the quotidian extraordinary. He wrote more than sixty plays, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Young...
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Vol. 136 Issue 010 (May 22 2009)
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