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 Vol. 137 Issue 019 (November 5 2010)
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Vol. 137 Issue 020 (November 19 2010)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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LETTERS Christopher Lasch; leaving the church LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Regarding Casey Nelson Blake's profile of Christopher Lasch ("Historian, Critic, Prophet," October 22): I was born in 1936;...
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dotCOMMONWEAL MISTAKES WERE MADE From "Did the Voters Really Get It Right?" by Don Wycliff: I know it's not the sort of thing the president or any Democrat can be heard saying, but might it be...
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EDITORIAL Loud & Unclear
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From the Editors Loud & Unclear The results of the midterm elections were both emphatic and ambiguous: a strong message was sent, but no one is entirely sure what it is. According to polls, most...
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Cash-cowed
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Cash-cowed HOW MONEY IS DEFORMING OUR POLITICS The 2010 midterms will go down as one of the most fiercely fought elections in our political history. Nasty...
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At the Limits
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Fredericks, James L.
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SHORT TAKE James L. Fredericks At the Limits RAIMUNDO PANIKKAR'S LONG THEOLOGICAL JOURNEY Raimundo Panikkar died at his home near Barcelona on August 21. He was ninety-one. Panikkar lived and...
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Consider the Day
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Little, Judy
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Consider the Day (Mt 6:34) Consider the day, how it begins where time listens— and lilies gather light only, sky startled calls in first wing rising and sunlit branches at eversong lively,...
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The Reach of Beauty
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Schaefer, Paul J.
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ARTICLES The Reach of Beauty A Catholic Boyhood in Wisconsin Paul J. Schaefer We were as close to God as we were to our animals or as close to our animals as we were to God. It's difficult to...
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Slow Fade
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Werpehowski, William
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Slow Fade Obama, the Bishops & the Bomb William Werpehowski In a July interview with NBC, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs sought to counter charges that the Obama administration has not...
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Homecoming
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Dittberner-Jax, Norita
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Homecoming The dead whom I called forth in poems stayed the night and show no signs of leaving yet. I cancel appointments to spend the time with them before they thin and slip the bonds of...
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Hereafter
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva Survivors 'HEREAFTER' To summarize the plot of Clint Eastwood's Hereafter is to falsify the experience of seeing the film. So I'll keep it brief. Marie (Cecile De France),...
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The Divine Sister
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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STAGE Mollie Wilson O'Reilly A Vow of Parody 'THE DIVINE SISTER' Playwright, actor, and drag performer Charles Busch has made a career out of deconstructing and playfully recreating the classic...
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The Tenth Parallel
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Ryan, Patrick J.
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BOOKS Patrick J. Ryan Border Crossings The Tenth Parallel Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam Eliza Griswold Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27, 336 pp. ho shall find a...
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Hitch-22
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Castronovo, David
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David Castronovo The Things He Carried Hitch-22 A Memoir Christopher Hitchens Twelve, $26.99, 435 pp. In Hemingway's short story "The Three-Day Blow," young Nick Adams and his pal Bill Smith...
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The English Opium-Eater
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Schwendener, Peter
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Peter Schwendener Big Poppy The English Opium Eater A Biography of Thomas De Quincey Robert Morrison Weidenfeld & Nicholson, $37.99, 462 pp. Some writers tower over their age while others...
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The Book of Genesis
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O'Donnell, Paul
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Paul O'Donnell The Bible, Rated R The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb R. Crumb W. W. Norton, $24.95, 224 pp. Suddenly, everybody is reading the Bible, and not only to themselves. The...
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Religion Booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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Religion Booknotes Lawrence S. Cunningham Originally written by Maureen H. O'Connell as a dissertation, Compassion is a study both of compassion itself and of its conditions and implications in an...
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Gate of Heaven
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Wolf-Devine, Celia
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THE LAST WORD Gate of Heaven Celia Wolf-Devine I wasn't raised Catholic, but even after I became one, I used to think of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as something outdated and...
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