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		 Vol. 140 Issue 014 (September 13 2013)
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		 Letters
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		LETTERS Catholic universities, cremation, etc. MISSION POSSIBLE I am grateful to R. Scott Appleby for reviewing my book Academic Freedom and the Telos of the Catholic University ("Reclamation...
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		From the Editors America's Politics Magazines of all sorts have been struggling to find their way in the digital age and in an increasingly fragmented cultural environment. Journals, like...
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		 Lost Sheep
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		Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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		COLUMNISTS Lost Sheep Margaret O'Brien Steinfels IS THE CHURCH A LAZY MONOPOLY? One out of every three Americans raised in the church is no longer a Catholic. These "formers" make up the second...
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		 Free Market?
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		MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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		Free Market? Charles R. Morris NOT FOR THE OIL GIANTS In the mid-1970s, I spent a couple of years working in the British government as a kind of exchange civil servant. Yes, the meeting rooms...
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		 The Devil They Know
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		Reynolds, Gabriel Said
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		SHORT TAKES The Devil They Know Gabriel Said Reynolds WHY MOST SYRIAN CHRISTIANS SUPPORT BASHAR AL-ASSAD In the summer of 2011 ongoing protests against the rule of Bashar al-Assad in Syria...
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		Tentler, Leslie Woodcock
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		Notown Leslie Woodcock Tentler THE DETROIT I KNEW IS GONE Detroit has been dying for a long time. When my parents returned to the city in 1955—my mother was born there in 1917, while my father...
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		 The Things We Share
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		ARTICLE The Things We Share A Catholic's Case for Same-Sex Marriage Joseph Bottum There's this guy I know in Manhattan. Call him Jim. Jim Watson. We're friends, I guess. We used to be friends,...
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		PATRICK O'SHEA  My soul waits for the Lord as do we on watch until morning, more than we who watch for the morning. —Psalm 130  I. We charter a large motor yacht to strew Alan’s ashes, and...
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		FILM Recording Angel with a Camera Richard Alleva 'FRUITVALE STATION' In Oakland, California, during the early morning of January 1, 2009, Oscar Julius Grant, a twenty-two-year-old African...
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		BOOKS And Yet It Works Paul Horwitz Defending American Religious Neutrality Andrew Koppelman Harvard University Press, $55, 241 pp. The first thing to note about Andrew Koppelman's important...
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		 My Bright Abyss
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		Goaded by Doubt Paul Johnston My Bright Abyss Meditation of a Modern Believer Christian Wiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24, 192 pp. Modern poetry, like all modern intellectual endeavors,...
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		The Party of Humanity Andrew J. Bacevich For the Republic Political Essays George Scialabba Pressed Wafer, $15.95, 255 pp. Let us begin with the subtitle, where a correction is in order. For...
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		THE LAST WORD Place Holders John C. Seitz "Detachment gives us the understanding that we are born into a world that is larger and more important than we; that we are drops in an infinite...
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		 Vol. 140 Issue 015 (September 27 2013)
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