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 Vol. 139 Issue 015 (September 14 2012)
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Vol. 139 Issue 016 (September 28 2012)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Hospital mergers, Iran's agenda, the pope in Cuba HEALTHY DEBATE In his article "Care Package" (August 17), Wayne Sheridan critiques Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear's decision to halt the...
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Commonweal Online
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COMMONWEAL ONLINE FIRST FREEDOM From the dotCommonweal post “Religious Liberty Under Attack: Germany, Egypt, Missouri" by Michael Peppard: The U.S. bishops’ Our First, Most Cherished Liberty...
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The Wrong Kind
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From the Editors The Wrong Kind In 2008, Barack Obama received only 43 percent of the white vote; without the support of minority voters, he would have lost the election. African Americans, in...
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Farewell: Faithful Ferryman
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Ryan, Jerry
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FAREWELL Jerry Ryan Faithful Ferryman JOSEPH CUNNEEN, 1923-2012 Joseph Cunneen, a longtime contributor to Commonweal, passed away in his sleep on July 29. He was eighty-nine years old. The son...
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Only Wonder Comprehends
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Garvey, John
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COLUMNIST John Garvey Only Wonder Comprehends LEARNING TO SEE WHAT'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF US I don’t think anyone who has seen the wonderful photo of the Earth in all its beauty suspended above the...
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Pray Only to Allah!
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Pinault, David
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SHORT TAKES David Pinault ‘Pray Only to Allah! ’ INDONESIA'S THREATENED RELIGIOUS PLURALISM chance conversation at an ancient shrine in East Java I 1 helped me understand Indonesia’s tradition...
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Unhappy Campers
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Pasquale, Frank
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Frank Pasquale Unhappy Campers THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT & THE ELECTION Nearly a year after it began, Occupy Wall Street (OWS), which quickly turned into the larger Occupy movement, continues to...
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Feeding the Beast
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Moses, Paul
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Paul Moses Feeding the Beast POLITICAL JOURNALISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE When the Washington Post reported in May that as a teenager Mitt Romney had bullied a fellow student in his high school, it...
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Ecumenical
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Murphy, Timothy
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ECUMENICAL “On the great book that’s titled Pheasant Hunting this is the cover photo,” Steven says. Heavy cover varies from brown to baize silvered with frost, with not an arctic bunting spinning...
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The Single-Issue Trap
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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ELECTION 2012 The Single-Issue Trap What the Bishops Voting Guide Overlooks Cathleen Kaveny In 2007 the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued Forming Consciences for Faithful...
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Vacation
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Leopold, Nikia
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VACATION Beyond my pillow the Arno stalls. Carp are still. No current discloses source from destination. Spring and sea pause like two middle-aged shoppers comparing the virtues of fresh water...
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Turning Point
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Prusak, Bernard P.
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Turning Point A Theologian Remembers the Council Bernard P. Prusak In the fall of 1965, I worked in the final session of the Second Vatican Council. A young priest and doctoral candidate, I was...
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Fever Dream
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva Fever Dream 'COSMOPOLIS' Dostoyevsky famously said all Russian literature emerged from under Gogol’s “Overcoat.” Most of Don DeLillo’s fiction seems delivered from a dingy...
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Twilight of the Elites
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Baumann, Nick
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BOOKS Nick Baumann Pulling Up the Ladder Twilight of the Elites America After Meritocracy Christopher Hayes Crown, $26, 304 pp. The United States is in the midst of a broad crisis of...
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Rock the Casbah
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Patterson, Margot
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Margot Patterson The Clash Rock the Casbah Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World By Robin Wright Simon & Schuster, $26.99, 307 pp. Music serves as a metaphor for change in Rock the...
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with God on Our side
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Sinyai, Clayton
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Clayton Sinyai Mission-Driven Union Busting With God on Our Side The Struggle For Workers’ Rights in a Catholic Hospital Adam D. Reich Cornell University Press, $26, 208 pp. After the recent...
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City of Bohane
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Wren, Celia
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Celia Wren Off the Map City of Bohane Kevin Barry Graywolf Press, $25, 288 pp. When you open City of Bohane, you’re opening not just a novel, but a Fodor’s guide to a metropolis—an eerie,...
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Conversions
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Noll, Mark
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Mark Noll Crossing Boundaries Conversions Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America Craig Harline Yale University Press, $27.50, 320 pp. Craig Harline’s captivating book about...
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A Fuller Life
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Johnston, Paul K.
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THE LAST WORD A Fuller Life Paul K. Johnston To my friends and colleagues at the college where I teach, I'm the Wrong-Way Corrigan of the twenty-first century. Seven years ago, at the age of...
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