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 Vol. 141 Issue 016 (October 10 2014)
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Vol. 141 Issue 017 (October 24 2014)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Soviets & Synods CORRECTION I was surprised by a historical error in Margaret O'Brien Steinfels's otherwise insightful column on the illogical and emotional causes of war, "Why We Fight"...
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Two Faiths
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From the Editors Two Faiths « "IT TT TTe’re in for troubled times,” the Oxford historian Margaret MacMillan recently warned, addressing a group of historians in Salzburg, Austria, who gathered to...
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Men at Work
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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COLUMNISTS Mollie Wilson O'Reilly Men at Work RAISING BOYS WHO BELIEVE WOMEN CAN DO (ALMOST) ANYTHING My big mistake was not looking closely enough at the storybook zoos. I thought I was raising...
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Consider This
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Consider This WHY OPINION JOURNALISM STILL MATTERS Commonweal has long identified itself as a “journal of opinion edited by Catholic laypeople.” In a world where facts...
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Trying My Hand
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Pfaff, William
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SHORT TAKES William Pfaff Trying My Hand HOW I GOT STARTED IN JOURNALISM After I graduated from Notre Dame in 1949, I faced the problem of what to do to make a living. All my college friends...
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That '70s Church
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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Cathleen Kaveny That ’70s Church WHAT IT GOT RIGHT Unpacking some boxes after a recent move from South Bend, Indiana, to Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, I came across my confirmation stole, which I...
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We lived
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Wiman, Christian
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POEM WE LIVED by Christian Wiman We lived in the long intolerable called God. We seemed happy. I don’t mean content I mean heroin happy, donkey dentures, I mean drycleaned deacons expunging...
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The Commonweal Catholic
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Johnson, Luke Timothy
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90TH ANIVERSARY ISSUE The Commonweal Catholic It Started with Origen Luke Timothy Johnson Over the past several years I have spoken at some wonderful colleges and universities across this...
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Authoritative & Ignored
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Oakley, Francis
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Authoritative & Ignored The Overlooked Council of Constance Francis Oakley Human beings chart their collective past, like their individual ones, via anniversaries, and this year has been...
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Formative Years
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Tierney, Kaitlin Campbell, Christopher Cimorelli, Joanna Gardner, Ellen B. Koneck,Chris Staysniak, M
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Formative Years What Commonweal Means to Six Young Staffers In addition to Commonweal’s Campus Speakers Program and the free subscriptions donors make available to college students, the magazine...
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On Nature
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Joseph, Lawrence
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ON NATURE And the puzzles surrounding the cosmological constant, spacetime imploded into existence. Ten to fifty years between asbestos breathed and mesothelioma discovered, a rare form of...
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Love is Strange
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Alleva, Richard
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FILM Richard Alleva Manhattan Story 'LOVE IS STRANGE' Sometimes a work of fiction can bear witness to a profound social transformation by taking it for granted. Such is the case with Love Is...
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Young Catholic America
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Baker, Thomas
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BOOKS Thomas Baker Kids Today Young Catholic America Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church Christian Smith, Kyle Longest, Jonathan Hill, and Karl Christofferson Oxford University...
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Icons of Hope
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O'Donovan, Leo J.
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Leo J. O'Donovan Closed for Repair? Icons of Hope The ‘Last Things’ in Catholic Imagination John E. Thiel University of Notre Dame Press, $35, 256 pp. At the end of “Experiences of a Catholic...
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The Arsonist
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Pritchard, William H.
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William H. Pritchard Direct Impressions The Arsonist Sue Miller Knopf, $25.95, 304 pp. Sue Miller’s acclaimed first novel, The Good Mother, was published in l982; now, almost thirty years later,...
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Scalia
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Horwitz, Paul
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Paul Horwitz Unoriginal Scalia A Court of One Bruce Allen Murphy Simon & Schuster, $35, 656 pp. One of the most famous stock characters in Italian comme-dia dell’arte is Pulcinella—the “Punch”...
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The News
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Schroth, Raymond A.
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Raymond A. Schroth Fit to Print? The News A User’s Manual Alain de Botton Pantheon, $26.95, 243 pp. In the introduction to his 1946 autobiography, Not So Wild a Dream, the great newsman Eric...
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Accepting the Disaster
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Domestico, Anthony
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Anthony Domestico Gift & Bait Accepting the Disaster Poems Joshua Mehigan Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23, 96 pp. Accepting the Disaster, Joshua Me-higan’s superb new collection of poetry,...
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A Job, Not a Career
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Stout, Emily
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THE LAST WORD A Job, Not a Career Emily Stout Pope Francis has a way of shocking us with what we already know. During his first Chrism Mass last year he said that priests ought to be like...
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