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 Vol. 143 Issue 019 (December 2 2016)
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Vol. 143 Issue 020 (December 16 2016)
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS What Not to Do at Mass I thought they all had been safely buried in my subconscious but Michael Peppard's dotCommonweal post "Starving in the Pews" (October 7) unexpectedly released a...
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The 'Madness' of Mercy
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From the Editors The 'Madness' of Mercy When Hannah Arendt reviewed Pope John XXIII's journals just over fifty years ago, she shared a question posed to her by a Roman chambermaid not long after...
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Don't Scatter the Ashes-or Wear Them
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Ferrone, Rita
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COLUMNISTS Rita Ferrone Don't Scatter the Ashes—or Wear Them THE BODY'S NOT A PRISON. ITS REMAINS ARE NOT A KEEPSAKE. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) issued a statement in...
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Waiting by the Jesse Tree
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly Waiting by the Jesse Tree AN OBSCURE TRADITION KEEPS CHRISTMAS OVERLOAD AT BAY By mid-December, our calendar is full of breakfasts with Santa, town tree-lightings, and...
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Trump's Antennae
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dotCOMMONWEAL TRUMP'S ANTENNAE Rand Richards Cooper So he isn't gonna lock her up after all. Surprised? You probably shouldn't be. One of the pithiest insights during this year's campaign came...
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Suggestions or Commands?
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Zahl, Simeon; Hart, David Bentley
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CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION Suggestions or Commands? AN EXCHANGE ON DAVID BENTLEY HART'S 'CHRIST'S RABBLE' Simeon Zahl Occasionally in today's ever-rolling stream of commentary you come up...
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Stones at Late Evening
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Meyer, William
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STONES AT LATE EVENING There is barely enough light to pray much less obey the instinct to feel the drying texture of the schizophrenic face of those in windows or by the water's edge. An Indian...
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Priest, Writer, Mentor, Misfit
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Higgins, Michael
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ARTICLE Priest, Writer, Mentor, Misfit Understanding Henri Nouwen Michael Higgins Two decades ago, on September 21, 1996, while on the way to St. Petersburg to shoot a documentary based on his...
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Moonlight
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Alleva, Richard
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FILM Richard Alleva No Refuge 'MOONLIGHT' Moonlight is a blazing iceberg of a movie. Blazing because of the passion that informs every shot, an iceberg because so much of its meaning resides...
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Holy Cities
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PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
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ART Bernard G. Prusak Holy Cities THE CONTEMPLATIVE WHIMSY OF BRIAN WHELAN In her book on Jerusalem, the religion writer Karen Armstrong notes that "in Hebrew the word for 'holy' (kad-dosh)...
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The Moth Snowstorm
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Connors, Philip
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BOOKS Philip Connors A World of Wounds The Moth Snowstorm Nature and Joy Michael McCarthy New York Review Books, $27.95, 272 pp. In 1954, when Michael McCarthy was seven, his mother was...
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The Feud
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Pritchard, William H.
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William H. Pritchard Frenemies The Feud Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship Alex Beam Pantheon, $26.95, 224 pp. In the final act of Hamlet, our hero reflects...
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Shylock Is My Name
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Sargeant, Alexi
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Alexi Sargeant A Touch of Woody Allen Shylock Is My Name Howard Jacobson Hogarth, $25, 290 pp. Lorenzo, the young Venetian with whom Shylock's daughter Jessica elopes in The Merchant of Venice,...
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The Work of the Dead
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Lynch, Thomas
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Thomas Lynch The Weight of Bodies The Work of the Dead A Cultural History of Mortal Remains Thomas W. Laqueur Princeton University Press, $39.95, 711 pp. TT T"hy?" a priest asked me \ / \ /...
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Make Patriotism Great Again
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Bordwell, Harold
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LAST WORD Make Patriotism Great Again Harold Bordwell George Berkeley (1685-1753), the Anglican bishop of Cloyne in County Cork, Ireland, was one of the most interesting men of his age, perhaps...
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