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 Vol. 141 Issue 018 (November 14 2014)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 More on that '70s church
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LETTERS More on that'70s church FORMATIVE YEARS Thank you for the excellent article by Cathleen Kaveny ("That '70s Church," October 24), in which she rightfully challenges the claim that the...
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Pope Frank
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From the Editors Pope Frank peak frankly,” Pope Francis said at the opening of last month’s Extraordinary Synod on the Family. “Let no one say, ‘I can’t say this. They’ll think such-and-such about...
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Married to the Past
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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COLUMNIST Cathleen Kaveny Married to the Past WHAT LAW CAN AND CANNOT DO In “Commitment to Marriage,” an open letter issued before last month’s Extraordinary Synod on the Family, prominent...
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Browsers Welcome France vs. Amazon
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Wu, Albert
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SHORT TAKE Albert Wu Browsers Welcome FRANCE VS. AMAZON As an exchange student in Paris in 1999, Phyllis Cohen was drawn to the city’s used bookstores. She went to work in one, and ultimately...
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Blessings in Disguise
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Domestico, Anthony
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ARTICLES Blessings in Disguise The Unfashionable Genius of Marilynne Robinson Anthony Domestico In her essay “When I Was a Child I Read Books,” the novelist Marilynne Robinson describes how,...
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The High Road
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Storrar, William
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The High Road Scotland Debates the Commonweal William Storrar On the day Scotland was voting in a constitutional referendum on independence, I drove through the western part of the country to...
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Rilkean Dream
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Swist, Wally
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RILKEAN DREAM I dreamed of myself as a light following A greater series of lights, in a particular Pattern of circles— A veritable sense of a spiritual Architecture, as in the shell of a...
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Gone Girl
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Alleva, Richard
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FILM Richard Alleva Exile on Main Street 'GONE GIRL' Like the best-selling novel it’s based on, Gone Girl proceeds on three levels. First, it is a mystery story replete with clues, stratagems,...
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The Liar's Wife
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Nelson, Cassandra
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FALL BOOKS Cassandra Nelson Flawed Vessels The Liar’s Wife Four Novellas Mary Gordon Pantheon Books, $25.95, 304 pp. Can good ever come from evil, or truth from a lie? St. Augustine answered...
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My Struggle
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Wilson, John
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John Wilson Without Artifice ? My Struggle Book Three: Boyhood Karl Ove Knausgaard translated by Don Bartlett Archipelago Books, $27, 427 pp. When I first read Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids...
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Christ Actually by James Carroll
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O'Brien, George Dennis
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George Dennis O'Brien Keep Low Christ Actually The Son of God for the Secular Age James Carroll Viking, $30, 368 pp. War puts the gods on trial. During the first Jewish war in 70 CE, Roman...
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Fields of Blood
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Farneth, Molly
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Molly Farneth Blame Agriculture Fields of Blood Religion and the History of Violence Karen Armstrong Alfred A. Knopf, $30, 528 pp. In the wake of his September 10 speech outlining his strategy...
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The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio
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Noble, Thomas
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Thomas Noble Twisted Sisters The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio The True Story of a Convent in Scandal Hubert Wolf translated by Ruth Martin Alfred A. Knopf, $30, 482 pp. If this astonishing tale were...
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Political Order and Political Decay
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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Charles R. Morris Slouching Toward Denmark Political Order and Political Decay From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Society Francis Fukuyama Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35,...
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The Divine Spark
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Moore, Kathleen
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THE LAST WORD The Divine Spark Kathleen Moore Ever since Cat Stevens became Yusuf Islam, I've been fascinated by religious converts. A little envious of their enthusiasm, too. While researching...
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