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 Vol. 140 Issue 018 (November 15 2013)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Gay marriage, anti-Semitism, the Bible TOUGH LOVE I was struck by this sentence in John Garvey's column "An Imperfect Union" (October 11): "For most of its history, marriage has been...
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A Chat with Pope Francis
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From the Editors A Chat with Pope Francis Commonweal presents an unprecedented exclusive: Pope Francis's first interview with a lay Catholic publication. The transcript of the editors'...
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Clean Sweep
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McGowan, Jo
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COLUMNISTS Jo McGowan Clean Sweep A REFORM PARTY TAKES ON CORRUPTION IN INDIA A few nights ago, I met an old friend in a coffee shop in New Delhi. Stephane is a French architect who has lived...
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Painting the Jewish Jesus
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Painting the Jewish Jesus 'CHAGALL: LOVE, WAR, AND EXILE' Jesus is Jewish. Is there a more basic fact about him than that? Nothing has altered our understanding of...
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Comforting Rachel
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Howard, Agnes R.
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SHORT TAKE Agnes R. Howard Comforting Rachel HOW CHRISTIANS SHOULD RESPOND TO PRENATAL DEATH Several years ago I had a miscarriage about five months into pregnancy. My husband and I had brought...
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Deaconesses
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Sulewski, Rob
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DEACONESSES (Pliny X.96) Remember the two nameless slave-women, the two deaconesses Pliny had flogged. Their ruined skin, the flaking of the shackles, their new blood on the brown crust of...
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Getting Organized
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Doby, Richard L. Wood, Brad Fulton, Christine
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ARTICLES Getting Organized Catholics & Community Activism Richard L. Wood, Brad Fulton, Christine Doby These are days of hope for American Catholics, following years of despair for too many. The...
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A House Divided
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Bane, Mary Jo
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A House Divided As the Nation Goes, So Goes the Church Mary Jo Bane Every four years our presidential elections, depressing though they may be, provide a fascinating view of American society. The...
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Keep It Vague
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Koppelman, Andrew
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Keep It Vague The Many Meanings of Religious Freedom Andrew Koppelman Most contemporary liberal political philosophers in this country are kindly disposed toward the idea of religious liberty....
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Reform of the Reform
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Lears, Jackson
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Reform of the Reform How Not to Fix Our Schools Jackson Lears Reign of Error The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools Diane Ravitch Alfred A. Knopf,...
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The Moth
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Cadnum, Michael
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THE MOTH There is one now, on the screen door, his chalky wings a blur, wanting in, wanting in. A neighbor arrives, headlights and the thump of a car door. The voices slip through the...
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Gravity
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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FILM Rand Richards Cooper Weightless 'GRAVITY' I can't recall a film released to more unanimous critical joy than Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron's taut chronicle of a space mission gone disastrously...
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Someone
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Preziosi, Dominic
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BOOKS Dominic Preziosi A Bold Piece Someone Alice McDermott Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25, 232 pp. Alice McDermott doesn't do trendy. Verbal pyrotechnics aren't part of her arsenal; making...
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Growing Up Absurd
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Schneider, Nathan
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Nathan Schneider Missing Revolutions Growing Up Absurd Paul Goodman New York Review Books, $17.95, 312 pp. Nearly everything that Paul Goodman complained about in Growing Up Absurd—his...
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Reading Law
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DeGirolami, Marc O.
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Marc O. DeGirolami Legalese Reading Law The Interpretation of Legal Texts Antonin Scalia & Bryan A. Garner Thompson/West, $39.96, 608 pp. Justice Antonin Scalia has built one of the most...
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Our Church
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O'Grady, Selina
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Selina OGrady A Mossy Graveyard Our Church A Personal History of the Church of England Roger Scruton Atlantic Books, $32.95, 224 pp. According to Roger Scruton, religion has been an...
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Shanghaied
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Callanan, Liam
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THE LAST WORD Shanghaied Liam Callanan It's late Saturday night in Shanghai. I'm in town for thirty-six hours as part of a whirlwind tour of China. A friend of a friend connected me to my tour...
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