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 Vol. 144 Issue 019 (December 1 2017)
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Vol. 144 Issue 020 (December 15 2017)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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Letters Modern Poetry & Religion Anthony Domestico's essay "Intelligible Mysteries" (November 10) draws from his obvious knowledge of a lot of complicated issues involved in responding to modern...
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What Now?
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From the Editors What Now? St. Paul instructs Christians that the greatest of the theological virtues is love; but it’s also true that the hardest of them is hope. “It’s hoping that is difficult,”...
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Policing the Communion Line
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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COLUMNISTS Cathleen Kaveny Policing the Communion Line WHY SACRAMENTAL RIGORISM BACKFIRES Many conservative Catholics remain opposed to relaxing the canonical prohibition against granting...
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Lucky Me
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly Lucky Me LEARNING TO BE HAPPY WITH TOO MUCH I hear it so often it might as well be my name. “Well! You have your hands full! ” It’s true, I do. Often literally. I hear it...
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Does 'Prolife' Mean More than 'Anti-Abortion'?
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Gehring, John
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SHORT TAKE John Gehring Does ‘Prolife’ Mean More than ‘Anti-Abortion’? THE U.S. BISHOPS CONFERENCE DOESN'T SEEM TO THINK SO Most Catholics didn’t lose any sleep over who would be elected...
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The Asylum to Our South
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Sorrentino, Joseph
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Joseph Sorrentino The Asylum to Our South MEXICO'S MIGRATION CRISIS Juan Alberto has lost both a son and grandson to the Mara Salvatrucha, one of the most vicious gangs in Latin America. The gang...
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Wonders Never Cease
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Robinson, Marilynne
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ESSAY Wonders Never Cease Integrity & the Modern Intellectual Condition Marilynne Robinson I place the origins of modern intellectual tradition in the seventeenth century for the purposes of...
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Ennui
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Murawski, Elisabeth
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ENNUI lightning bolts of sorrow knowing he’s neither here nor there my new life making my way through drifts wondering if he’s only in my heart does he die again when I die are we heartless holding...
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Where the Mystery Lies
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Domestico, Anthony
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INTERVIEW Where the Mystery Lies An Interview with Alice McDermott Anthony Domestico Readers of Commonweal will need little introduction to Alice McDermott—a frequent contributor and one of...
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Emmaus
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Spear, Susan Delaney
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EMMAUS I run in oddly warm December air and chase the orange, evanescent sun. Inhale, exhale (a runner’s form of prayer), I run in oddly warm December air. A stranger joins me on the asphalt...
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Novitiate
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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FILM Rand Richards Cooper Not So Great Escape 'NOVITIATE' In either a film or a novel, the challenge of capturing the past is to re-create, and allow us to inhabit, outlooks, practices, and...
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The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
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Pritchard, William H.
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BOOKS William H. Pritchard ‘She Lived to Read’ The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick Selected by Daryl Pinckney New York Review Books, $19.95, 645 pp. an he taught by quotation and aside,...
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A Rabble of Dead Money
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Wilber, Charles K.
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Charles K. Wilber Make America Keynesian Again A Rabble of Dead Money The Great Crash and the Global Depression, 1929-1939 Charles R. Morris Public Affairs, $29.99, 416 pp. Charles Morris, a...
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Twitter and Tear Gas
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Munch, Regina
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Regina Munch Share This Protest Twitter and Tear Gas The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest Zeynep Tufekci Yale University Press, $26, 360 pp. In 2009, a group of Harvard researchers...
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One Another's Equals
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Moyn, Samuel
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Samuel Moyn A Belief without a Basis? One Another’s Equals The Basis of Human Equality Jeremy Waldron Harvard University Press, $29.95, 264 pp. After Charlottesville, it is clear once again...
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Religion Booknotes
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Johnson, Luke Timothy
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RELIGION BOOKNOTES Luke Timothy Johnson Looking back at my first six installments of Religion Booknotes, I discover that I have mostly paid attention to scholarly books. And I confess to a taste...
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Until All Are Welcome
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Traina, Cristina L. H.
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LAST WORD Until All Are Welcome Cristina L. H. Traina In October a eucharistic minister at St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church in Evanston, Illinois, crossed her arms over her chest to request a...
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