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IssueVol. 141 Issue 012 (July 11 2014)
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Paid articleLetters
LETTERS The Future of Women Religious, etc. WHAT IS THE LCWR GOOD FOR? In her column "The U.S. Sisters & the Holy See" (June 13), Mollie Wilson O'Reilly asks many questions of Pope Francis, the...
Paid articleBack to Iraq?
From the Editors Back to Iraq? In an address to West Point graduates in May, President Barack Obama articulated his vision of a more restrained U.S. foreign policy. Attempting to steer a course...
Paid articleDotcommonweal
dotCOMMONWEAL WARM BEER & OLD MAIDS From the dotCommonwealpost "The GreatDisruptor,"a shortened version of Matthew Boudway's remarks at a conference on libertarianism organized by the Institute...
Paid articleSomething is Wrong
Garvey, John
COLUMNISTS John Garvey Something Is Wrong THAT'S THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM When I was young I thought the goal of a spiritual life was some form of bliss or contentment. In my pride, I wanted not...
Paid articleTake this Chalice-Please
Ferrone, Rita
Rita Ferrone Take This Chalice—Please WHY 'CUP' IS THE RIGHT WORD IN THE MASS The results of a recent survey by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate indicate that more than half the...
Paid articleThe Duplicity of the Ideologues
Bacevich, Andrew J.
SHORT TAKES Andrew J. Bacevich The Duplicity of the Ideologues U.S. POLICY & ROBERT KAGAN'S FICTIVE NARRATIVE lmost seventy years ago, a new world order was born from the rubble of World War II,...
Paid articleCatholic & Libertarian?
Peñalver, Eduardo A.
Eduardo M. Penalver Catholic & Libertarian? IT DEPENDS In the 2012 presidential election, for the first time in American history, two Catholic vice presidential candidates squared off to debate....
Paid articleMy Father's Files
Byrne, Dave
ARTICLE My Father's Files Sorting Him Out, One Page at a Time Dave Byrne He was sitting at the glass-topped table in the study, holding a sandwich in both hands and staring at it like a relic he...
Paid articleTwo Poems
Smith, Matthew Buckley
Two Poems by Matthew Buckley Smith BY AND BY What falls on us familiar at the end And blankets even the daylight in a blur That neither fog nor cricket come to friend Is not the night, although...
Paid articleThe Larger View
O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
BOOK ESSAY The Larger View The Genius of Middlemarch Mollie Wilson O'Reilly "Most serious readers," Rebecca Mead writes, "can point to one book that has a place in their life like the one that...
Paid articleExhibit A
Callanan, Liam
FICTION Exhibit A Liam Callanan By day thirty-seven, he'd broken dozens of rules, so what was one more? He went up and introduced himself to the woman in front of the Soyuz space capsule. "My...
Paid articleShow Time
Ford, Mark
SHOW TIME Mark Ford Tempus fugit every sundial proclaims, yet over and over time seems to swoon, or to expand, even to grind to a juddering halt when I blog; a dreadful day online, I think...
Paid articleIda
Cooper, Rand Richards
SCREEN Rand Richards Cooper Out of Great Silence 'IDA' Austere, quiet, its gravity tempered by bursts of harsh irreverence, Ida grabs your imagination and won't let go. Set in the dreary...
Paid articleLost for Words
Preziosi, Dominic
BOOKS Dominic Preziosi Writing Wrongs Lost for Words Edward St. Aubyn Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, 250 pp. Writing poorly on purpose is best left to those who can write especially well....
Paid articleAn Anxious Age
Marty, Martin E.
Martin E. Marty Has the Mainline Flatlined? An Anxious Age The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America Joseph Bottum Image, $25, 296 pp. Those who welcome a clearly stated thesis will...
Paid articleThe Self 's Hundred Lines
Joseph, Lawrence
Lawrence Joseph The Self's Hundred Lines Belmont: Poems Stephen Burt Graywolf, $15, 96 pp. 3 Sections: Poems Vijay Seshadri Graywolf, $22, 72 pp. "The nature of poetry," Wallace Stevens wrote...
Paid articleThe Paradise Part
Schneider, Nathan
THE LAST WORD The Paradise Part Nathan Schneider IIit in your cell as in paradise," begins St. Romuald's Brief Rule, an eleventh-century text that guides the life of monks in the Camaldolese...
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