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		 Vol. 141 Issue 010 (June 1 2014)
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		 Vol. 141 Issue 011 (June 13 2014)
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		 ••Cover Page••
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		 ••Contents••
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		 Episcopal authority, gutting Aquinas, etc.
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		LETTERS Episcopal authority, gutting Aquinas, etc. NEWMAN'S OWN John Thiel's efforts to correct Cardinal Donald Wuerl's misconception that bishops are the "only authoritative teachers of the...
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		 You Vote, They Decide
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		From the Editors You Vote, They Decide Keeping money from undermining democratic politics can seem like a Sisyphean task: successful efforts are always partial and temporary, and there are many...
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		 Modi's M.O.
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		McGowan, Jo
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		COLUMNISTS Jo McGowan Modi's M.O. THE BIG PROMiSES & DARK PAST OF iNDiA'S NEW PRiME MiNiSTER "I dearly love a presidential year," E. B. White wrote in 1956. "What capers! What laughs and spills!...
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		 The U.S. Sisters & the Holy See
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		O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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		Mollie Wilson O'Reilly The U.S. Sisters & the Holy See A CULTURE OF ENCOUNTER iN ACTiON? Why hasn't Pope Francis stepped in to get the Vatican off the nuns' backs? After all, he has said he wants...
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		 Engagement or Retreat?
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		Bottum, Ross Douthat, Jamie L. Manson, Joseph
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		CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION Engagement or Retreat? Catholicism & Same-Sex Marriage Ross Douthat, Jamie L. Manson, Joseph Bottum Last summer Commonweal published a controversial essay by Joseph...
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		 The Catch
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		Dittberner-Jax, Norita
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		THE CATCH On Paul Signac's The Blessing of the Tuna Fleet at Groix Signac painted the fishing boats straight on, Five of them and a little skiff, prows forward, masts splicing the air, flags...
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		 Merciful God, Merciful Church
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		Boudway, Matthew; Gallicho, Grant
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		INTERVIEW Merciful God, Merciful Church An Interview with Cardinal Walter Kasper During his first Angelus address, Pope Francis recommended a work of theology that "has done me so much good"...
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		 Two Poems
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		Rilke, Rainer Maria
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		Two Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Frauke Regan Autumn The leaves are falling, falling from afar, as if in heaven distant gardens wilted; they fall with gestures of negation. At...
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		 Cruel but Not Unusual
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		ARTICLE Cruel but Not Unusual The Scandal of Solitary Confinement Derek S. Jeffreys Several years ago, I drove more than two hundred miles from Green Bay, Wisconsin, to the isolated town of...
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		 Under the Skin Only Lovers Left Alive
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		SCREEN Richard Alleva Artful Schlock, Arty Dreck 'UNDER THE SKIN' & 'ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE' As I watched Jonathan Glaz-er's critically acclaimed Under the Skin, I suddenly found myself wanting...
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		BOOKS John Connelly Family Values Not I Memoirs of a German Childhood Joachim Fest translated by Martin Chalmers Other Press, $16.95, 464 pp. In Berlin on the evening of December 5, 1930,...
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		 Command and Control and Thermonuclear Monarchy
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		Herken, Gregg
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		Gregg Herken One Oops from Armageddon Command and Control Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety Eric Schlosser The Penguin Press, $36, 631 pp. Thermonuclear...
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		 Tea Party Catholics
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		Charles M. A. Clark Blessed Are the Rich Tea Party Catholics The Catholic Case for Limited Government, a Free Economy, and Human Flourishing Samuel Gregg Crossroads, $24.95, 260...
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		 Divided Friends
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		James P. McCartin God Bless Americanism Divided Friends Portraits of the Roman Catholic Modernist Crisis in the United States William L. Portier Catholic University of America Press, $39.95,...
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		 Junipero Serra and Journey to the Sun
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		Patrick Jordan Mission Applaudable? Junipero Serra California's Founding Father Steven W. Hackel Hill and Wang, $27, 327 pp. Journey to the Sun Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of...
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		 Spontaneous Tolerance
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		Thornton, Christopher
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		THE LAST WORD Spontaneous Tolerance Christopher Thornton On a late December afternoon in central Kathmandu, children fresh from the confinement of classrooms play in a courtyard, called a chowk...
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