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Vol. 139 Issue 001 (January 13 2012)
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Letters
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Letters Objections, responsibility & food for thought Pseudoprophets I was disappointed to find Andrew Bacevich agreeing with Robert Imbelli (“History, Hope, & iPhones,” October 7, 2011)...
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An Illiberal Mandate
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From the Editors An Illiberal Mandate After the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops launched a well-financed campaign against the Freedom of Choice...
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Myth & More
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Garvey, John
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COLUMNIST John Garvey Myth & More Why historical fact isn’t enough Myth is a necessary way of understanding, but it is deeply misunderstood. The place of myth—and its misplacing—have a...
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Dotcommonweal
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dotcommonweal Lost IN TRANSLATIO N From the post “Formally equivalent Christmas cookies”: During Commonweal ’s gift exchange on December 14, the following recipe was humbly received by our...
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Unintended Consequences
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Etzioni, Amitai
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Short takes Amitai Etzioni Unintended Consequences war crimes in libya However good the reasons for our intervention in Libya, we and our allies failed to stop some terrible deeds...
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No Sweat
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Ruden, Sarah
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Sarah Ruden No Sweat when work becomes a dirty word In the Satyricon, a Roman novel written sometime around AD 60 (probably at the court of the emperor Nero), there’s a telling scene. Three...
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The Country of D‚j… Vu
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Berry, Wendell
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The Country of Déjà Vu My old poems—I liked them all well enough when they were new. They came through the air, I wrote them down, and sent them on, as also I fed the birds who stopped here to...
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A Modus Vivendi?
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Baumann, William L. Portier, Nancy Dallavalle, Christopher C. Roberts, Tina Beattie, R. R. Reno, Pat
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A Modus Vivendi? Sex, Marriage & the Church William L. Portier, Nancy Dallavalle, Christopher C. Roberts, Tina Beattie, R. R. Reno, Patricia Hampl, Luke Timothy Johnson, Leslie Woodcock Tentler,...
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An Ignatian Spirit
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Ashley, J. Matthew
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An Ignatian Spirit Avery Dulles’s Theological Journey J. Matthew Ashley To write a biography of Avery Dulles (1918–2008) is to enter the vitriolic conf lict over interpretations of the legacy...
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Parking Garage in January
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Uchmanowicz, Pauline
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far, Carey’s “hermeneutic of trust” with regard to Dulles’s description of his own career is helpful. Yet it is simply disingenuous to state that Dulles “did not side with either the liberals or...
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Hugo My Week with Marilyn
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Alleva, Richard
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Richard Alleva Screen Magic ‘hugo’ & ‘my week with marilyn’ To call a successful film director a movie magician is usually just hyperbolic cliché, but Georges Méliès (1861–1938) was literally...
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Robert Redford
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Schilling, Timothy P.
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Timothy P. Schilling The Way He Is Robert Redford The Biography Michael Feeney Callan Alfred A. Knopf, $29.95, 496 pp Because it is far too easy in life to end up embodying something other...
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"I have always loved the Holy Tongue"
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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Lawrence S. Cunningham Religion Booknotes. “I have always loved the Holy Tongue” Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship Anthony Grafton and Joanna...
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A Jesuit in the Forbidden City
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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A Jesuit in the Forbidden City Matteo Ricci, 1552–1610 R. Po-chia Hsia Oxford University Press, $57.50, 386 pp. The Jesuit Matteo Ricci, contemporary with Casaubon, was also an extremely well...
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The Art of Dying and Living
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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decided that Buddhism was not a suitable point of entry for his missionary work. Instead, he studied Confucius, and found that approach more fruitful: for one thing, it allowed him to...
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Newman and His Contemporaries
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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Newman and His Contemporaries Edward Short Continuum/T&T Clark, $32.95, 544 pp. In Newman and His Contemporaries Edward Short retells John Henry Newman’s story in relation to the people who...
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Silver & Gold
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Doyle, Brian
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And while we are talking about fourth grade, I am reminded of Maureen McArdle’s neck in front of me in the third row, that smug smarmy neck, gloating and preening at me for nine long months, as...
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Vol. 139 Issue 002 (January 27 2012)
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