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 Vol. 144 Issue 006 (March 24 2017)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Getting religion, Castro NOT GETTING 'GETTING RELIGION' Nancy Dallavalle's review of Getting Religion: Faith Culture and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Era of Obama ("Our Man...
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Editorial
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Belief, Beyond
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From the Editors Beyond Belief Of all Donald Trump's signature verbal tics—from "bigly" and "tremendous" to "sad!"—perhaps the most telling and ominous is the phrase "believe me," which he uses as...
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Another Abu Ghraib?
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Another Abu Ghraib? HOW TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION POLICIES COULD LEAD TO ABUSE Americans' traditional optimism about the future is steadily giving way to the...
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Mission before Identity
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O'Brien, David
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CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION David O'Brien Mission before Identity A RESPONSE TO JOHN GARVEY & MARK ROCHE Iwas discouraged by the recent essays by Catholic University President John Gar-vey and...
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From Multum in Parvo
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Murphy, Timothy
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From Multum in Parvo “For the least of these” Goods in their stolen shopping carts piled high, the homeless labor down this frozen street, and there but for the grace of God go I. Replete after...
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The Diaglogue of Fraternity
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Fredericks, James L.
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SHORT TAKES James L. Fredericks The Dialogue of Fraternity POPE FRANCIS'S APPROACH TO INTERRELIGIOUS ENGAGEMENT "Ours is not a relation of 'tea and sympathy,' that is not my way, and it is not...
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A Turn That Went a Long Way
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Steinfels, Peter
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Peter Steinfels A Turn That Went a Long Way REMEMBERING MICHAEL NOVAK Any adequate account of the swirling currents in Catholic intellectual life during the decades following the 1960s and...
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Blue Heron
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Imbelli, Robert
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Blue Heron Shimmering in sunlight glancing from the lake Poised on stilts, patient for its prey: Dawn apparition—portentous presence Imperceptibly distilled into air. —Robert...
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The Story of Islam
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Pinault, David
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ARTICLES The Story of Islam A Primer David Pinault Events of the past two decades have brought Islam onto the radar of the West with a centrality few could have imagined. The terror attacks by...
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The Martyr Complex
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Marley, Julia
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The Martyr Complex 'Jesus Freaks' & Donald Trump Julia Marley If you were an evangelical Christian in 1995, there's a good chance you've heard the song "Jesus Freak" by DC Talk. When I learned...
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Two Poems
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Hickman, Lou Ella
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Two Poems By Lou Ella Hickman Mary’S Journey How Did You Walk, Mary You, Graceful One After Grace Came To Dwell Within You... Such Was Your Journey One Step Then Another Unknowing Yet...
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Mozart in the Jungle
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Wren, Celia
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TELEVISION Celia Wren Armed & Musical 'MOZART IN THE JUNGLE' Art and commerce have long been at war, but the battle is rarely fought at a toxic-waste facility with a pair of dueling pistols—as...
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Paterson
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Alleva, Richard
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FILM Richard Alleva Grounded 'PATERSON' Recently I wrote of Manchester by the Sea that one "rarely comes across a film that captures the drift and flow of daily life and conveys its pungent...
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Judas
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Novick, Tzvi
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BOOKS Tzvi Novick The First Christian? Judas A Novel Amos Oz Translated by Nicholas de Lange Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25, 320 pp. Amos Oz's latest novel, Judas, makes for a somewhat...
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Kafka
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Meyers, Jeffrey
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Jeffrey Meyers Hurt into Literature Kafka The Early Years Reiner Stach, translated by Shelley Frisch Princeton University Press, $35, 564 pp. This first volume of Kafka's life covers the years...
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Muslims and the Making of America
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Fredericks, James L.
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James L. Fredericks Here All Along Muslims and the Making ofAmerica Amir Hussain Baylor University Press, $24.95, 132 pp. In this short, readable book, Amir Hussain does not predict that Islam...
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Future Humans
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Lauritzen, Paul
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Paul Lauritzen Oh the Places We'll Go Future Humans Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution Scott Solomon Yale University Press, $27, 240 pp. This August, the National Institutes of...
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Unchosen Hardships
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Kosa, Lauren
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LAST WORD Unchosen Hardships Lauren Kosa t was just after breakfast on Good Friday when I began eyeing the frosted bunny cookie on the kitchen counter. I could swear its googly eyes were...
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