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Vol. 141 Issue 016 (October 10 2014)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Letters
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LETTERS Endearing anarchists, careless language VISION QUEST Thanks to Wayne Sheridan for the Tom Cornell interview in the September 12 issue ("Farmer, Anarchist, Catholic"), which provided a...
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Muddled?
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From the Editors Muddled? The video executions of two American hostages have awakened this country to the sweepingly brutal campaign of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, but its savagery is...
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The Illusion of Control
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Garvey, John
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COLUMNISTS John Garvey The Illusion of Control DON'T CONFUSE DECISIVENESS WITH WISDOM Here’s something priests often hear, sometimes from members of parish councils: “Well, Father, in the real...
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Easy Does it
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Ferrone, Rita
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Rita Ferrone Easy Does It ROME PUTS A DAMPER ON THE SIGN OF PEACE In a July letter, the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (CDWDS) warned against...
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Get Used to Gridlock
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Baumann, Nick
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SHORT TAKE Nick Baumann Get Used to Gridlock THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS WON'T CHANGE MUCH Most of us will never admit it, but almost everyone who works in or covers national politics already knows...
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Picking Blackberries at Jubilee
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PICKING BLACKBERRIES AT JUBILEE I have to lie down The globular berries dripping black-wet Hang heaviest inside. I mourn the fallen ones too long undiscovered. Some might be saved. The deer have...
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A Question of Conscience
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Howard, Thomas Albert
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THEOLOGY ISSUE A Question of Conscience The Excommunication of Ignaz von Dollinger Thomas Albert Howard While the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council continues to be celebrated,...
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Comfort and Justice
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Stout, Emily
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COMFORT & JUSTICE I want to gather you like the accordion folds of a long dress Around my wrists and run. If you ask where, I say, breathless, —The comfort & justice of an open field. I want to...
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'A True Story? '
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Liese, Debra
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‘A True Story? ’ A Mother's Fragmentary Faith Debra Liese When my oldest daughter was a baby, she carried with her, from car seat to crib, My Little Golden Book About GOD. A gift from her...
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The Trip to Italy Land Ho!
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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FILM Rand Richards Cooper Roads to Nowhere 'THE TRIP TO ITALY' & 'LAND HO!' As Hollywood knows perhaps all too well, road movies and buddy movies churn out powerful cinematic pheromones long...
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Strange Glory
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Bacevich, Andrew J.
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BOOKS Andrew J. Bacevich Beyond the Parlor Strange Glory A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Charles Marsh Alfred A. Knopf, $35, 544 pp. Writing in Commonweal in 1980, the historian David O’Brien...
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Jesus the Forgiving Victim
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Baker, Thomas
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Thomas Baker More Than Morals Jesus the Forgiving Victim James Alison Doers Publishing, 591 pages, $39.95 The current market for “introductory courses” in the Catholic faith is crowded but...
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living with a Wild God
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Callahan, Sidney
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Sidney Callahan Visions & Blind Spots Living with a Wild God A Nonbeliever’s Search for the Truth about Everything Barbara Ehrenreich Grand Central Publishing, $26, 256 pp. How does a...
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Giving Care
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Murray, Joseph G.
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THE LAST WORD Giving Care Joseph G. Murray I used to think of compassion, caregiving, and fostering community as the special talents of the staff I so admire at the dementia residence where my...
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Vol. 141 Issue 017 (October 24 2014)
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