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 Vol. 142 Issue 019 (December 4 2015)
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Mortal sin, celibacy, sci-fi parody, etc. JUST a VENIAL SIN At least one letter writer in the November 13 issue cheered on Donald Cozzens's analysis in "Sins, Mortal & Otherwise" (October...
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Editorial
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Paris, After
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From the Editors After Paris Like all acts of terrorism, the attacks in Paris on November 13, which killed 129 people and wounded hundreds of others, came as a horrible shock. Yet they were not...
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dotCommonweal
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Tiptoes, Magnificence on
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dotCOMMONWEAL MAGNIFICENCE ON TIPTOES Rand Richards Cooper n Italy a few weeks ago I had an afternoon to tour the Tuscan city of Siena. I spent almost all of it in the cathedral. Its overwhelming...
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Two Poems
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Ruden, Sarah
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Two Poems by Sarah Ruden THE OLD WALL Arch after arch set in the brick, Rosettes along them, pebble-thick; Draped, helmed, armed figures, scribes with scrolls, And eagles in their leafy...
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Mispricing Risk
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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COLUMNISTS Charles R. Morris Mispricing Risk THE PROBLEM WITH LOW INTEREST RATES A quarter of a percent, or two and a half cents per hundred dollars, is a miniscule rate of interest. In fact,...
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Keeping the Books
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McGowan, Jo
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Jo McGowan Keeping the Books OWEN MCGOWAN, RIP My father, Owen McGowan, grew up poor during the Great Depression. Books saved him. Of the seven children in his family, he was the only one to go...
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Catching Up & Passing On
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Bacevich, Andrew J.
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SHORT TAKES Andrew J. Bacevich Catching Up & Passing On MEMORIES OF A MONASTERY SCHOOL Fiftieth-year high-school reunions are not for the faint of heart. To encounter classmates last seen a...
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The Opening of the Canadian Mind
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Higgins, Michael W.
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Michael W. Higgins The Opening of the Canadian Mind JUSTIN TRUDEAU'S VICTORY ENDS A DISMAL ERA IN CANADA'S POLITICS After several weeks of holding its breath, Canada exhaled, and the pent-up gust...
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Morábito, Fabio
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UNTITLED If, all of a sudden, something gets lost something I absolutely need right now— a pencil, a paper, the eraser— I survey the chaos with hapless eyes, unable to sink my hand into it. I...
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Assessing the Synod
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Wilkins, Catherine Wolff, Karen Kilby, Christopher, Ruddy, Mary Lee Freeman, John
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ARTICLES Assessing the Synod Five Views Catherine Wolff, Karen Kilby, Christopher Ruddy, Mary Lee Freeman, John Wilkins Catherine Wolff Five years ago, a group of my friends and colleagues...
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False Friends
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Cappelli, Vanni
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False Friends Why Does the U. S. Still Support Pakistan ? Vanni Cappelli Amidst the sorrow and solidarity of the mass rally in Paris in January following the Charlie Hebdo massacres, French...
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Invisible Man
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Kleinbard, Edward D.
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Invisible Man Losing Sight of the Real Adam Smith Edward D. Kleinbard If contemporary economists fielded a football team, it would no doubt be named the Smiths, in honor of the illustrious...
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Chaplains
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Wren, Celia
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TELEVISION Celia Wren They’re Everywhere AMERICAN PUBLIC TELEVISION'S 'CHAPLAINS' The Daytona 500 may not usually spark road-to-Damascus moments. But it did so for Nick Terry, who spent over a...
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Christmas Critics
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Lodge, David
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BOOKS Christmas Critics David Lodge My reading in 2015 began well with a new novel called Winter (Europa Editions, $17, 256 pp.) by Christopher Nicholson, an English writer previously unknown to...
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Christmas Critics
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Nelson, Cassandra
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Cassandra Nelson I have a hunch, altogether unprovable, that there is some essential connection between narrative and Christianity. Time for the believer has—like a story—a beginning, middle, and...
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Christmas Critics
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Martin, James
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James Martin When I was a Jesuit novice, my spiritual director had a rule about retreats: no reading until after your final prayer period at night, and then only the lives of the saints. It sounds...
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Christmas Critics
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Noble, Thomas
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Thomas Noble I couldn’t have been the only historian somewhat perplexed by Jo Guldi and David Armitage’s claims in The History Manifesto (Cambridge, Free Download, 166 pp.). They grumble that in...
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Christmas Critics
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Ruden, Sarah
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Sarah Ruden In her mid-teens, Jane Austen wrote Love andFreindship (available in several editions). Virginia Woolf admired this substantial jeu d’esprit for its maturity and the “rhythm and...
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Christmas Critics
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Peppard, Michael
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Michael Peppard At this most wonderful time of the year, when you gather around the family table, are you looking forward to talking about politics? As kids eagerly await the surprises of Christmas...
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Christmas Critics
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Rowland, Ingrid D.
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Ingrid D. Rowland This winter, thousands of refugees from Syria and Afghanistan (among many others) will be preparing for their first European winter, reminding us that the Mediterranean connects...
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Kids in the Kingdom
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Moringiello, Scott D.
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LAST WORD Kids in the Kingdom Scott D. Moringiello My liturgical tastes used to tend toward the simple, but they've recently turned toward the chaotic. That's because I've come to experience the...
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Vol. 142 Issue 020 (December 18 2015)
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