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 Vol. 142 Issue 008 (May 1 2015)
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Vol. 142 Issue 009 (May 15 2015)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Teaching prisoners, seminarians & ourselves SHORTSIGHTED Kudos to Robert Cowan ("Prisoner's Dilemma," March 6) for saying that the objections that scuttled Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to...
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Held to Account
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From the Editors Held to Account In a March 2014 interview, Pope Francis was given an opportunity to comment on the sexual-abuse scandal, a subject he had said remarkably little about since his...
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Do No Harm
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dotCOMMONWEAL DO NO HARM J. Peter Nixon Aclose friend of mine recently finalized his divorce. He and his wife had been separated for a year and the last few years of their marriage had been...
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Spare the Rod
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McGowan, Jo
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COLUMNIST Jo McGowan Spare the Rod TREATING VIOLENCE LIKE A CONTAGION Iwas in the Delhi airport last week, waiting for a flight to Scotland. Like most foreign flights, it was leaving at a...
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Does the Earth Have Rights?
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Young, Robin Darling
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SHORT TAKE Robin Darling Young Does the Earth Have Rights? WHAT TO EXPECT—AND HOPE FOR—IN THE POPE'S NEXT ENCYCLICAL When Pope Francis issues his encyclical on the environment this spring or...
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The Flamingo
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Cadnum, Michael
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THE FLAMINGO The pink of her plumage is borrowed from the shells of shrimp she snaps from the muddy grasses, as step-by-step she extends her stride across a kingdom not river, not sea, safe...
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A Continent Adrift
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Sheehan, James J.
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ARTICLES A Continent Adrift How Greece & Ukraine Are Testing Europe James J. Sheehan AGerman friend of mine once shared this childhood memory: It was the late spring of 1945, during Nazism's...
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Some Octaves on Holy Orders
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Lynch, Thomas
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SOME OCTAVES ON HOLY ORDERS for Thomas Meagher and Ryan Justin Adams, Presbyters Non sum quails eram A vestibule bathed in stained glass light for naming and claiming, chrism and oil. The...
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Knowing Jesus
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Ryan, Jerry
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Knowing Jesus Easier Said than Done Jerry Ryan Awhile back, I was asked to write about "what the person ofJesus meant to me." I took this as a request to describe my personal relationship to...
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Two Poems
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Cooley, Peter
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Two Poems by Peter Cooley SUNDAY MORNINGS I've never found another name for Heaven except heaven-here—this walk around the block— our meeting-place-between we live our lives, terra infirma, the...
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Effie Gray & Cinderella
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RichardAlleva
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FILM Richard Alleva Happily Ever After 'EFFIE GRAY' & 'CINDERELLA' This has been a dreadful year at the movies for the great Victorian art critic John Ruskin. The otherwise superb biopic Mr....
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'The Divine Comedy' at the National Museum of African Art
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Tushnet, Eve
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ART Eve Tushnet Common Hells, Private Heavens 'THE DIVINE COMEDY: HEAVEN, PURGATORY, AND HELL REVISITED BY CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ARTISTS' I'm sitting in hell with a couple of little boys, who are...
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Beyond the Abortion Wars
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PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
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BOOKS Bernard G. Prusak The Wrong Description Beyond the Abortion Wars A Way Forward for a New Generation Charles C. Camosy Eerdmans, $22, 224 pp. The University of Scranton recently made...
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Blackballed
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Wycliff, Don
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Don Wycliff Stuff White People Need Blackballed The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy Darryl Pinckney New York Review of Books, $16.95, 99 pp. ^ I t would seem," Darryl Pinckney writes in the...
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The Young T. E. Lawrence
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Meyers, Jeffrey
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Jeffrey Meyers An Ambiguous Legacy The Young T. E. Lawrence Anthony Sattin Norton, $28.95, 316 pp. As ISIS fanatics continue to destroy ancient monuments in Syria and Iraq, and the Taliban...
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Life After Faith
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Marino, Gordon
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Gordon Marino Tough Questions Life After Faith The Case for Secular Humanism Philip Kitcher Yale University Press, $25, 175pp. Though the prose is calm and pacific, this is a cannonball of a...
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Senioritis
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Cahill, Elizabeth Kirkland
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THE LAST WORD Senioritis Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill Last fall, I toured high schools with my fourteen-year-old, whose current gig ends after eighth grade. At two quite different schools, one...
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