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		 Vol. 140 Issue 016 (October 11 2013)
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		 Letters
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		LETTERS Syria, Same-Sex Marriage, Christians & Politics LIFE & DEATH Joseph Bottum's important, common-sense article, "The Things We Share: A Catholic's Case for Same-sex Marriage" (September...
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		 A New Balance
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		From the Editors A New Balance Whether they describe themselves as liberal or conservative, reform-minded or traditionalist, Catholics were stunned by the interview Pope Francis recently gave to...
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		 An Imperfect Union
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		COLUMNISTS An Imperfect Union John Garvey WHEN CHURCH & STATE MARRY At this moment in our culture, it is hard to talk about samesex marriage without making a fool of oneself—hard to talk about...
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		O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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		Wild Thing Mollie Wilson O'Reilly TAMING MY TWO-YEAR-OLD Is it only a coincidence that this year, which marks the fiftieth anniversary of Maurice Sendak's masterful picture book Where the Wild...
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		 Darwin's Nagging Doubt
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		CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION John F. Haught Darwin's Nagging Doubt WHAT THOMAS NAGEL COULD LEARN FROM THEOLOGY With me the horrid doubt always arises," wrote Charles Darwin, "whether the...
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		AT THE END of a late August evening comes a light through maples and over orange marigolds a light that eddies over fallen apples a butterfly light that slows and begins again a light like a...
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		ARTICLE Why Study God? The Role of Theology at a Catholic University John C. Cavadini hy does Notre Dame require all undergraduate students to complete theology courses and why do other Catholic...
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		 The Spectacular Now Blue Jasmine
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		FILM Fearsome Correctives Rand Richards Cooper 'THE SPECTACULAR NOW' & 'BLUE JASMINE' At the outset, James Ponsoldt's The Spectacular Now looks like a throwback to such 1980s teen comedies as...
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		BOOKS Bring Out Your Dead Thomas Baker The Good Funeral Death, Grief, and the Community of Care Thomas G. Long and Thomas Lynch Westminster John Knox Press, $25, 272 pp. According to the...
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		Not Dead Yet Gary Dorrien Reinventing Liberal Christianity Theo Hobson Eerdmans, $30, 327 pp. Theo Hobson believes that liberal theology disintegrated decades ago and needs to be reinvented. The...
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		Serious Fun Scott D. Moringiello Waiting for the Barbarians Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture Daniel Mendelsohn New York Review Books, $24.95, 423 pp. In his play The Frogs, Aristophanes...
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		THE LAST WORD Past Perfect Peter Quinn "The past isn't dead," William Faulkner famously remarked. "It isn't even past." Now, thanks to a breakthrough experiment with lab mice conducted by...
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		 Vol. 140 Issue 017 (October 25 2013)
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