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 Vol. 140 Issue 005 (March 8 2013)
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••Contents••
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LETTERS Quashing ‘dissent* SMEAR TACTICS Regarding Jerry Ryan's "Orthodoxy & Dissent" (February 8): In August 2009, Bishop Thomas Joseph Tobin of Providence published a review of Archbishop...
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After Benedict
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From the Editors After Benedict "The church is not the pope, and the pope is not the church,†theologian Joseph Komonchak reminds us (“Benedict's Act of Humility,†page 7). Amen to that....
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Nothing To Celebrate
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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COLUMNIST Mollie Wilson O'Reilly Nothing to Celebrate GUNS & THE CULTURE OF DEATH At the end of a busy week— one that included both Ash Wednesday and the pope's surprise resignation—New...
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Benedict'S Act Of Humility
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Komonchak, Joseph A.
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SHORT TAKES Joseph A. Komonchak Benedict's Act of Humility NOW IT'S ROME'S TURN The last pope to resign did so more than seven hundred years ago, which is a long time even by church standards....
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Shock Therapy
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Steinfels, Peter
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Peter Steinfels Shock Therapy COULD THE NEXT POPE LEARN FROM BENEDICT? By resigning, Pope Benedict served the church well. He has spared it another prolonged period of mounting disarray. He has...
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Assembly Required
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Portier, William L.
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ARTICLE Assembly Required Christ's Presence in the Pews William L. Portier Picture a choir-loft view of a church full of Catholics assembled for the Eucharist. It's a solemn feast, Easter...
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Ash Wednesday
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Schilling, Timothy P.
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ASH WEDNESDAY I boiled my life down to the purest extract and watched it dry and flake away —Timothy P. Schilling Timothy P. Schilling serves on the staff of the Center for Parish...
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Django Unchained
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva Raw Spaghetti 'DJANGO UNCHAINED' The director Quentin Tarantino loves genre, the grungier the better. His first three films, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown,...
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Iron Curtain
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Sheehan, James J.
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BOOKS James J. Sheehan Little Stalins Iron Curtain The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 Anne Applebaum Doubleday, $35, 566 pp. Karl Marx was wrong: Wars, not revolutions, are “the...
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Where The Conflict Really Lies
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Schwenkler, John
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John Schwenkler Natural Enemies? Where the Conflict Really Lies Science, Religion, and Naturalism Alvin Plantinga Oxford University Press, $27.95, 376 pp. The scientific discoveries of the...
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This Is How You Lose Her
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Sayers, Valerie
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Valerie Sayers Men Behaving Badly This Is How You Lose Her Junot Diaz Riverhead, $26.95, 213 pp. Junot Diaz's fiction alternately unsettles, amuses, challenges, delights, and wounds. His new...
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Commonweal Associates
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Thank you, Associates. This year Commonweal celebrates eighty-nine years of providing a place for reflective, independent Catholic thought. We are able to do this because of the steadfast support of...
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The Edward Skillin Society recognizes those who have provided for Commonweal's future through bequests and other forms of planned giving. For information about including Commonweal in your will or...
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Ribbon Chasers
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Marino, Gordon
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THE LAST WORD Ribbon Chasers Gordon Marino Since his confession to Oprah Winfrey last month, Lance Armstrong's psyche has been lanced and explored from many different angles. Some have deemed the...
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Vol. 140 Issue 006 (March 22 2013)
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