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 Vol. 138 Issue 013 (July 15 2011)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS 'Risks of religious life'; Qod & suffering PERILOUS VOWS I was disappointed in Barry Gault's article on Jesuits ("Society Men," April 22), but I enjoyed the letters in response (May 20)...
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dotCOMMONWEAL THE FUTURE OF MARRIAGE? From the post "Don't Lose Ugly," by J. Peter Nixon: Ten years from now, I would be extremely surprised if gay marriage had not been legalized in most of the...
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Editorial Over The Brink?
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From the Editors Over the Brink? Speaking to reporters at the White House, Press Secretary Jay Carney quoted from a letter written by the president to members of Congress. The consequences of...
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Dignity & The End Of Life Cathleen Kaveny
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COLUMNISTS Cathleen Kaveny Dignity & the End of Life HOW NOT TO TALK ABOUT ASSISTED SUICIDE Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia have long been the redheaded stepchildren of the...
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Up Against The Wall
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Nonomen, Fr.
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Fr. Nonomen Up against the Wall THE LITURGICAL WARS HEAT UP I'm tired of being nice about it, tired of being politically correct when this issue comes up. So I'll be blunt. Someone just left my...
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Fear-Mongering From The Bench
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Young, Malcolm C.
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SHORT TAKES Malcolm C. Young Fear-mongering from the Bench SCALIA & ALITO DISGRACE THEMSELVES IN 'BROWN V. PLATA' Few recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have been more vigorously contested, or...
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Pots
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Hopkins, John
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Pots I prefer pots. They don't have to be weighed down with meaning. They are what they are, earth and chemistry. from The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt I prefer the humility of pots hands once...
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Lagging Behind
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Cafardi, Nicholas P.
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Nicholas P. Cafardi Lagging Behind THE JAY REPORT & THE VATICAN'S LETTER In 2003, the U.S. Catholic bishops' National Review Board put together a request for proposals for two studies of the...
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Tormented Witness
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Cahill, Elizabeth Kirkland
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Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill Tormented Witness JOHN BERRYMAN'S ADDRESSES TO GOD The life of faith finds an enduring metaphor in the notion of the soul's journey to God. Consider the pilgrim-poet of...
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From "Addresses To The Lord"
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Berryman, John
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From "Addresses to the Lord" Germanicus leapt upon the wild lion in Smyrna, wishing to pass quickly from a lawless life. The crowd shook the stadium. The proconsul marvelled. 'Eighty & six years...
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It Doesn't Sing
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Ferrone, Rita
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ARTICLE It Doesn't Sing The Trouble with the New Roman Missal Rita Ferrone Beginning in Advent of this year, the language of the Mass will be very different. A new translation of the Roman...
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Misery Island
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Hannibal, Edward
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Misery Island Edward Hannibal Between the man's finding full-time work again and the boy's playing park-league baseball and caddying at the Essex County Golf Club, they hardly saw each other all...
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Midnight In Paris: The Princess Of Montpensier
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva Another Country 'MIDNIGHT IN PARIS' & 'THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER' I should have been the ideal viewer for Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, if its enthusiasts are right in...
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Bonhoeffer
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Baker, Thomas
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BOOKS Thomas Baker It Wasn't Cheap Bonhoeffer Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy Eric Metaxas Thomas Nelson, $29.99, 608 pp. The final days of Dietrich Bon-hoeffer in 1945 make for powerful and...
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Chasing The Sun
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O'Donnell, Paul
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Paul O'Donnell Wide Orbit Chasing the Sun The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life Richard Cohen Random House, $20, 608 pp. No book worth its salt, it has been said, should be read front...
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The Longest War
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Bin Laden's Legacy The Longest War The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda Peter L. Bergen Free Press, $28, 473 pp. Befitting its subject, The Longest War...
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Justice For Hedgehogs
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Galston, William A.
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William A. Qalston One Big Thing Justice for Hedgehogs Ronald Dworkin Belknap/Harvard University Press, $35, 528 pp. In nearly four decades of reviewing books, Justice for Hedgehogs is arguably...
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The Banished Heart
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Komonchak, Joseph A.
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Joseph A. Komonchak Liturgy by Committee The Banished Heart Origins of Heteropraxis in the Catholic Church Geoffrey Hull T & T Clark, $34.95, 383 pp. The banished heart of Geoffrey Hull's...
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Expecting
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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THE LAST WORD Expecting Mollie Wilson O'Reilly "r^o you know whether you're having a boy or a girl?" I've L^ been answering that question a lot lately. This time I was at a wedding, chatting with...
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