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 Vol. 143 Issue 005 (March 11 2016)
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Vol. 143 Issue 006 (March 25 2016)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Infallibility, race & representation, a messy faith TO ERR IS HUMAN Regarding "It's Nothing Personal" (February 12): My academic credentials come nowhere near my longtime friend George...
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GOP R.I.P.?
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From the Editors GOP R.I.P.? It is difficult to know what to make of Donald Trump’s bawdy political ascendency. What is certain is that the man who has promised to build a wall across the...
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The Calm Person in the Room
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dotCOMMONWEAL THE CALM PERSON IN THE ROOM Rand Richards Cooper In January I was watching football when my wife, who had taken the dogs out for a walk, came rushing in. “There’s an opossum that...
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Lithium Balloon
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Nazarene, Robert
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LITHIUM BALLOON I’d sneak off to the creek—the one my mother knew Was plagued by polio. Its bank was my nest where I gathered my twigs & Sticks, my thoughts and... The cold gloomy days magnetized...
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The Consecrated Life
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THE CONSECRATED LIFE J. Peter Nixon Last week Pope Francis presided over a Mass to mark the end of the Year for Consecrated Life. He also gave a short talk to men and women religious at an...
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From Quasi-Stories
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Snodgrass, Fabio Morábito, translated by Kathleen
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FROM QUASI-STORIES The greengrocer counts the shriveled, wrinkled, inhuman apples, and then he sells me celery past it prime and six green bananas. And I take them all. Seated in the back, mute,...
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Good for Everyone?
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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COLUMNISTS Charles R. Morris Good for Everyone? QUESTIONING FREE-TRADE PIETIES It has long been a truism among economists that free trade—competing on price and quality without tariffs or...
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The Eyes Have It
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Nonomen, Fr.
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Fr. Nonomen The Eyes Have It THE MEANING OF A HOLY THURSDAY RITUAL Do they ever bother to look up? These priests who argue endlessly against washing the feet of women during the Mandatum on Holy...
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Total Recall
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Total Recall TRICKS FOR THE FORGETFUL Everyone forgets now and then. Misplaced keys, missing words, forgotten names, absent-mindedly turning the steering wheel the...
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Between the Knower & the Known
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Shiffman, Mark
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SHORT TAKE Mark Shiffman Between the Knower & the Known LAUDATO SI' & THE LIMITS OF THE SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT While many readers of Laudato si’ have noted Pope Francis’s reliance on the thought of...
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When the Escalator Stopped
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Lodge, David
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ARTICLES When the Escalator Stopped David Lodge We had decided to call our third child Christopher if it was a boy, simply because we both liked the name. He was born in the early hours of...
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Wilderness Experience
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Little, Judy
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WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE Anything can unhappen— Sunworn canyons could spill ridges, fold flowers and highways and drown trails going and home or not, and my chosen road seems to have gone...
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The Rising Revised
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Quinn, Peter
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The Rising Revised Roy Foster's Vivid Faces Peter Quinn In Ireland, a country accustomed to memorializing rebellions and battles that bear testimony to a turbulent history, the Easter Rising of...
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Chimes at Midnight
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Alleva, Richard
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FILM Richard Alleva Shakespeare’s Epic Scoundrel 'CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT' Just in time to relieve the post-Oscar doldrums comes the reappearance of Orson Welles’s Chimes at Midnight, the 1966...
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The Crucifixion
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Imbelli, Robert P.
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BOOKS Robert P. Imbelli No Glib Gospel The Crucifixion Understanding the Death ofJesus Christ Fleming Rutledge Eerdmans, $45, 695 pp. Sixteen years ago I reviewed appreciatively for Commonweal...
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Does Altruism Exist?
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Johnston, Paul
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Paul Johnston Look to the Insects Does Altruism Exist? Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others David Sloan Wilson Yale, $18, 192 pp. Does altruism exist? For most readers of this review the...
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Thirteen Ways of Looking
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Holman, Emily
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Emily Holman Worlds Made by Words Thirteen Ways of Looking Colum McCann Random House, $26, 256 pp. Just how much does one’s way of looking determine what one sees? We all know that perception...
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The Road Not Taken
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Knepper, Steven
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Steven Knepper No Turning Back The Road Not Taken Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong David Orr Penguin Press, $25.95, 184 pp. David Orr has written a...
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Addiction by Design and Acedia and Its Discontents
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Libresco, Leah
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Leah Libresco Sloth & Slots Addiction by Design Machine Gambling in Las Vegas Natasha Dow Schüll Princeton University Press, $24.95, 456 pp. Acedia and Its Discontents Metaphysical Boredom in...
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Those Few Minutes
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Doyle, Brian
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LAST WORD an unreal athlete gets that kind of sick and that graceful smooth vessel in which he expressed his joy grinds to a halt and collapses. He could shoot with either hand, the only player I...
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