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 Vol. 142 Issue 016 (October 9 2015)
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Vol. 142 Issue 017 (October 23 2015)
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Anointing the sick, a callous Court, etc. HELP A BROTHER OUT Rita Ferrone's article ("Unction Dysfunction," September 25, 2015) is right on target. I belong to the international order of...
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Family Ties
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From the Editors Family Ties Pope Francis's clandestine meeting with Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk whose refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples has made her a hero to many...
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Safe, and Sorry
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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COLUMNISTS Mollie Wilson O'Reilly Safe, and Sorry PROTECTING THE POPE THE AMERICAN WAY Ahigh-school student on his way home, trying to get through the wall of people on the sidewalk, stopped to...
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Francis Goes to Congress
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Francis Goes to Congress DID CONGRESS LISTEN? Speaker John Boehner's unexpected resignation threw a sharp focus on Pope Francis's opening words to the U.S. Congress in...
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Awakening
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Robinson, Marilynne
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ARTICLES Awakening Whom God Loveth He Also Chastiseth Marilynne Robinson It is an essential principle of American government and society that there should be a separation of church and state. As...
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The Other Heaven
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Brackett, Judy
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THE OTHER HEAVEN On nights with little moon or none, the near-blind great-grandmother settles in her chair in the middle of the orchard, bare branches or new leaves or hard-green or just-right or...
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Battered Souls
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Stevenson, Jonathan
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Battered Souls The Fiction of Robert Stone Jonathan Stevenson Robert Stone, who died this past January at the age of seventy-seven, wrote big, political novels—novels of ideas whose protagonists...
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In Parentheses
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Joseph, Lawrence
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IN PARENTHESES by Lawrence Joseph I As I said, I'm a lawyer. Technically speaking, is a head blown to pieces by a smart bomb a beheading? II Infinitely compressible, yet expandable time, and...
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Black Mass
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Alleva, Richard
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FILM Richard Alleva Magnetic Menace 'BLACK MASS' Any moviegoer hearing of a new gangster movie has a right to ask, "Why another?" The genre's tropes—the protagonist's rise to the top over the...
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Great Is the Truth
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Steinfels, Peter
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FALL BOOKS Peter Steinfels Sexual Abuse Among the Elite Great Is the Truth Secrecy, Scandal, and the Quest for Justice at the Horace Mann School Amos Kamil, with Sean Elder Farrar, Straus &...
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Christian Human Rights
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McGreevy, John T.
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John T. McGreevy A Retrograde Concession? Christian Human Rights Samuel Moyn University of Pennsylvania Press, $24.95, 264 pp. Aquestion: Can you name the first modern constitution to defend...
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The Year of Lear
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Wren, Celia
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Celia Wren Text & Context The Year of Lear Shakespeare in 1606 James Shapiro Simon & Schuster, $30, 365 pp. In 2007, a small theater company in Northern Virginia attracted national attention...
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Mary McGrory
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Moses, Paul
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Paul Moses Leding Lady Mary McGrory The First Queen ofJournalism John Norris Viking, $28.95, 352 pp. When Stephen Colbert addressed the White House Correspondents Association's 2006 gala, he...
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Purity
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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Rand Richards Cooper The Blame Fame Game Purity Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28, 576 pp Jonathan Franzen is America's foremost practitioner of the Big Novel— that doorstop-sized...
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Watered Down or Dried Up?
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Hoover, Brett C.
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LAST WORD Watered Down or Dried Up? Brett C. Hoover More than thirty years ago, in The Emergent Church, the progressive German theologian Johann Metz inquired into the decline of church...
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