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 Vol. 142 Issue 014 (September 11 2015)
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Vol. 142 Issue 015 (September 25 2015)
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LETTERS Climate change, Labour pains, Jewish custom FRUITFUL, MULTIPLIED Anthony Annett's otherwise informative and succinct article on Laudato si' ("The Next Step," August 14) tends to obfuscate...
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Works of Mercy
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From the Editors Works of Mercy The humanitarian crisis in the Middle East has been much lamented, but little has been done to alleviate it. The number of displaced persons is staggering, and the...
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dotCOMMONWEAL 'ALL LIVES MATTER' VS. BLACK LIVES MATTER Gordon Marino The Black Lives Matter movement, which emerged after the 2013 Trayvon Martin case, has been raising havoc on the presidential...
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Think Papally, Act Locally
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Think Papally, Act Locally OF ENCYCLICALS & RECYCLABLES When Pope Francis says, "compulsive consumerism," I hear, "enough is enough." But what's enough?...
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Unction Dysfunction
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Ferrone, Rita
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Rita Ferrone Unction Dysfunction LET NONPRIESTS ANOINT THE SICK When we look into the eyes of someone sick and suffering, it tests our Christianity. It tests what we're made of, because it's hard...
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An Interview with NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina
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Preziosi, Dominic
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INTERVIEW Dominic Preziosi 'We Want Thinkers, Not Robots' AN INTERVIEW WITH NYC SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR CARMEN FARINA Carmen Farina is chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the...
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Two Poems
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Vreuls, Diane
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two poems by diane vreuls HE CAME A BABY To take on flesh, hunger and thirst. To learn pain. Born without words the Word, where angels sang his cry rose in the midnight air. He had to learn to...
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Unmarked Territory
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VanOosting, James
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SHORT TAKE James VanOosting Unmarked Territory A DIAGNOSIS & ITS CONSEQUENCES Dying is an adult activity. This has been one of its bigger surprises for me, so far. I find I'm needing to leave...
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Libertarianism's Iron Cage
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Wolfe, Alan
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ARTICLES Libertarianism's Iron Cage From Ayn Rand to Rand Paul Alan Wolfe In the past decade, libertarianism in the United States has come in from the cold. Once a fringe political movement...
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What Happened in Vegas
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Pierson, Frank
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What Happened in Vegas Battling Nevada's Underage Sex Trade Frank Pierson Andrea Swanson was raised in a Catholic military family in Virginia and married a military man. Her husband, Rod, served...
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Less Protesting, More Organizing
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Greenhouse, Steven
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BOOK ESSAY Stop Protesting, Start Organizing Unions & the Democratic Party Steven Greenhouse Toward the beginning of his new book, Thomas Geoghegan tells of a dispiriting conversation he had...
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The End of the Tour
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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FILM Rand Richards Cooper Narrative Control 'THE END OF THE TOUR' In recent years, the troubled writer has been a theme in movies as disparate as Wonder Boys, Adaptation, The Door in the Floor,...
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Galileo's Middle Finger
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Greenberg, Gary
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BOOKS Gary Greenberg The New Inquisition Galileo's Middle Finger Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science Alice Dreger Penguin Press, $27.95, 362 pp. When Northwestern...
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A God in Ruins
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Lakeland, Paul
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Paul Lakeland After 'Life After Life' A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson Little, Brown and Co., $28, 468 pp. Readers of Kate Atkinson's previous novel, Life After Life (Commonweal, March 10, 2014),...
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Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
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Russello, Gerald J.
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Gerald J. Russello The Word Alive Letters ofJames Agee to Father Flye Foreword by Robert Phelps Melville House, $16, 240 pp. he trip was very hard, and certainly one of the best things _JL I've...
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Small Mercies
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Deignan, Tom
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Tom Deignan A Borough Apart Small Mercies Eddie Joyce Viking, $27.95, 368 pages Afew months after the terror attacks of 9/11, the New Yorker ran a cover imagining New York's boroughs as Middle...
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When in Hebron
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Whitters, Mark
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LAST WORD When in Hebron Mark Whitters Last summer I traveled with a group of twenty-five professors and researchers to the Holy Land. We had spent the previous weeks together studying and...
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