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 Vol. 142 Issue 019 (December 4 2015)
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Vol. 142 Issue 020 (December 18 2015)
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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letters An unstifled church, false friends A NEEDED shock Hell hath no fury like conservatives marginalized: First Ross Douthat darkly speculating about Pope Francis's "plots" in the New York...
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Editorial
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Door, Don't Shut the
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From the Editors Don’t Shut the Door One prominent Catholic commentator has lauded the new House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) for his “statesman’s commitment to the principles of Catholic social...
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'His Own Received Him Not'
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Ferrone, Rita
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COLUMNIST Rita Ferrone ‘His Own Received Him Not’ THE PERFECT—AND NEGLECTED-GOSPEL READING FOR CHRISTMAS The prologue of John’s gospel has everything: poetry, mysticism, creation, redemption. It...
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Burdens & Blessings
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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SHORT TAKE Rand Richards Cooper Burdens & Blessings CARING FOR AGING PARENTS I spent a weekend in Vermont with three old college friends, an annual fall ritual. We’re in our mid-fifties, and...
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A Joy, Not a Nuisance
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Higgins, Michael
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ARTICLES A Joy, Not a Nuisance What the Disabled Taught Jean Vanier Michael Higgins In the fall of 2014, when he welcomed my two companions and me at the gate to the “holy grounds” that comprise...
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Hell, Population Zero
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Hakim, Albert B.
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Hell, Population Zero Daring to Hope that All Will Be Saved Albert B. Hakim The history of the church has not been kind to the notion of universal salvation. Though there have been a good number...
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Three Poems
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Hickman, Lou Ella
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THREE POEMS “the quality of mercy” is a fierce and terrible beauty... it hungers in its waiting then consumes our darkest brokenness even as it invites us to its table prayer as archeology i...
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Spotlight & Truth
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Alleva, Richard
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FILM Richard Alleva The Big Dig 'SPOTLIGHT' & 'TRUTH' Before the so-called Second Golden Age of Television was launched on cable, the one network show that captivated me (and in re-runs still...
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Once in a Great City
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Tentler, Leslie Woodcock
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BOOKS Leslie Woodcock Tentler Motor City Meltdown Once in a Great City A Detroit Story David Maraniss Simon & Schuster, $32.50, 464 pp. David Maraniss’s book on Detroit examines just eighteen...
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Between the World and Me
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Wycliff, Don
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Don Wycliff The Fire This Time Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates Spiegel & Grau, $24, 176 pp. The dust-jacket summary of Between the World and Me promises a book that “clearly...
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Go Set a Watchman
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Dufresne, Bethe
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Bethe Dufresne Atticus Unmasked Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee Harper, $27.99, 288 pp. This past summer, like countless other Americans who regard To Kill a Mockingbird with familial devotion, I...
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A History of Loneliness
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Schilling, Timothy P.
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Timothy P. Schilling Priests as Pariahs A History of Loneliness John Boyne Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, 325 pp. A quarter of the way through John Boyne’s novel A History of Loneliness, we...
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Raccoon
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Cadnum, Michael
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RACCOON He abides near flowing water even when it’s underground, knowing how to ghost across the cornfield to the least whisper of runoff. He knows the truth about more than the land, this...
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Utopia, Limited
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Domestico, Anthony
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Anthony Domestico Realistic Radicals Utopia, Limited Romanticism and Adjustment Anahid Nersessian Harvard University Press, $39.95, 280 pp. In Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment,...
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The 4 p.m. Blues
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Dupuy, Edward
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LAST WORD The 4 p.m. Blues Edward Dupuy May 10, 2015, marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Walker Percy's death. When I heard the news of his death, I was living in Covington, Louisiana, what...
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