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IssueVol. 141 Issue 005 (March 7 2014)
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Paid articleLetters
letters The Polish Underground, tithes & alms, etc. AN UNASSUMiNG HERO Thank you for the book review of Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by the late Jan Karski ("Witness," January...
Paid articleMissed Opportunity
From the Editors Missed Opportunity Last month, the United Nations committee that monitors compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child issued a stinging report criticizing the...
Paid articleNot So Fast
O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
COLUMNIST Mollie Wilson O'Reilly Not So Fast BREASTFEEDiNG iN THE BiBLE, AND iN THE CHURCH The year I got married, Ash Wednesday fell less than a month after the wedding. Too soon for fasting...
Paid articleGive It to Us Straight, Doc
Cooper, Rand Richards
SHORT TAKES Rand Richards Cooper Give It to Us Straight, Doc WHY CAN'T POLITICIANS BE HONEST ABOUT OBAMACARE? Can we please get some clarity on the politics of the Affordable Care Act? A...
Paid articleCatastrophic Coverage
Baumann, Nick
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON Nick Baumann Catastrophic Coverage THE MEDIA OVERREACT TO OBAMACARE'S GLITCHES Barack Obama, it seems, is a big believer in the power of nagging. "I ask every American who...
Paid articleOpting Out
Kraybill, Donald B.
ARTICLE Opting Out How the Amish Have Survived in America Donald B. Kraybill For a long time, most Americans knew little more about the Amish than that they made finely crafted furniture and...
Paid articleBottled-Up Yearning
Alleva, Richard
FILM Richard Alleva Bottled-Up Yearning 'THE INVISIBLE WOMAN' & 'GLORIA' In the paperback copy of Great Expectations I read as a boy, the introduction informed me that Ellen "Nelly" Ternan was a...
Paid articleRoth Unbound
Pritchard, William H.
BOOKS William H. Pritchard Roth at Rest Roth Unbound A Writer and His Books Claudia Roth Pierpont Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 368 pp. More than a year ago, Philip Roth announced that his...
Paid articlePatrick Leigh Fermor
Meyers, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Meyers The Byron of Our Time Patrick Leigh Fermor An Adventure Artemis Cooper New York Review Books, $30, 448 pp. Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915— 2011) achieved three impressive goals...
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THANK YOU, ASSOCIATES. Every year at this time we thank the exceptional members of the Commonweal Associates. Their generous contributions help us bridge the gap between revenues and expenses, as...
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The College Subscription Program makes free print and online subscriptions available to promising undergraduate and graduate students at dozens of Catholic and secular campuses. Almost 2,000...
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The Commonweal Endowment provides the organization with long-term financial stability and also makes a contribution each year to support Commonweal's annual budget. The Edward Skillin Society...
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