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 Vol. 136 Issue 015 (September 11 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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Letters Iran, papal terminology, fiction BETTER EXPECTATIONS I had just finished reading Mark Bowden’s 2006 book Guests of the Ayatollah when I picked up Commonweal and read...
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EDITORIAL: "Abortion Neutral"?
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From the Editors “Abortion Neutral”? Catholic social teaching, as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has tirelessly reminded our elected officials, has long regarded access to...
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COMMENT
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Comment ALWAYS FORWARD The Vatican’s unprecedented study of U.S. women’s religious congregations, and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s recently announced doctrinal...
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Moving Beyond the Culture Wars
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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Columnists Cathleen Kaveny Moving Beyond the Culture Wars WHY A BIOETHICS COUNCIL NEEDS DIVERSITY Writing in the August 14 issue of Commonweal (“End of Discussion”), the...
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Compassionate Liberalism
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Dionne, E. J. Jr.
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E. J. Dionne Jr. Compassionate Liberalism SENATOR TED KENNEDY, 1932–2009 Ted Kennedy was treasured by liberals, loved by many of his conservative colleagues, revered by African...
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Brown Out
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Bergonzi, Bernard
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Short Takes Bernard Bergonzi Brown Out WHY THINGS LOK BLEAK FOR LABOUR Gordon Brown has now been prime minister of Great Britain for two years, but it looks as if he will lose his job...
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Passing On the Alb
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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Short Takes Mollie Wilson O’Reilly Passing On the Alb MY CAREER AS AN ALTAR GIRL I think by now it’s safe to say that altar girls are a positive part of Catholic life. Young women who...
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breath of God
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Hickman, Sr. Lou Ella
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Poetry breath of God night’s canopy collapsed when Word breathed out from its uttered eternal now then chaos miracled o breath of God breathe Your Stillness again —Sr. Lou Ella...
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My Chicago Catholic Bubble
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Articles My Chicago Catholic Bubble Memories (Some Accurate) of a Catholic Girlhood Margaret O’Brien Steinfels Many people have written about Chicago and Chicago childhoods. For example,...
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Do Women Have Souls?
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Cummings, Kathleen Sprows
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Do Women Have Souls? Catholicism, Feminism & the Council of Mâcon Kathleen Sprows Cummings “Woman has always been unfairly discriminated against by man,” commencement speaker Henry Edmunds...
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The Hurt Locker
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Alleva, Richard
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Screen Richard Alleva War As Narcotic ‘THE HURT LOCKER’ The online “Urban Dictionary” tells me that a “hurt locker” is (1) an unfamiliar place where you wake up after a night of...
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The National Parks
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Wren, Celia
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Media Celia Wren Nature’s Cathedrals ‘THE NAT IONAL PARKS’ ON PBS By now, you might think, celebrated filmmaker Ken Burns should be able to concoct historical documentaries in his sleep....
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Free to Be Fathers?
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Peñalver, Eduardo M.
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Books Eduardo M. Peñalver Free to Be Fathers? Home Game An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood Michael Lewis W. W. Norton & Co., $23.95, 192 pp. The Daddy Shift How Stay-at-Home...
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Rebirth of a Nation
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Bacevich, Andrew J.
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Books Andrew J. Bacevich Cutting Through the Cant Rebirth of a Nation The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 Jackson Lears HarperCollins, $27.99, 432 pp. The great harm done by the...
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Church and Religious "Other"
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CLOONEY, FRANCIS X.
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Books Francis X. Clooney Keep Listening Church and Religious “Other” Edited by Gerard Mannion T&T Clark, $130, 320 pp. The globe is becoming interconnected at an increasingly...
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Rowan's Rule
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Yarbrough, Oliver Larry
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Books Oliver Larry Yarbrough Is He Fit? Rowan’s Rule The Biography of the Archbishop of Canterbury Rupert Shortt Wm. B. Eerdmans, $30, 344 pp. Rowan’s Rule is Rupert Shortt’s second...
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Looking Glasses
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O'Donovan, Leo J.
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The Last Word Looking Glasses Leo J. O’Donovan A religion of revelation understands God as addressing us from beyond our experience, not apart from it. It helped me to remember that when...
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Vol. 136 Issue 016 (September 25 2009)
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