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LETTERS The Bard's religion, the Kingdom of God, etc. DOES IT MATTER? Perhaps it's time to cease differentiating what brand of Christianity the Bard practiced ("Was Shakespeare Catholic?" May 4)!...
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From the Editors Promoting Torture Gina Haspel, the new CIA director, brings experience and professionalism to the job. That is one thing that differentiates her from most of President Trump's...
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COLUMNIST Rita Ferrone Taking on Abuse in Chile WHAT FRANCIS IS UP AGAINST On May 18, all the bishops in Chile offered Pope Francis their resignation en masse in response to the clergy...
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SHORT TAKE Maurice Manning Keeping the Rhythm LIFE LIVED TO THE BEAT OF A HYMN My experience of organized religion and an active spiritual life has often meant accepting ambiguity. I have never...
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ANNUALTHAW That kind of weather: zip up your jacket but leave your hat at home. Ice squeaks under boots now as water squirms below it, over broken slabs of sidewalk. Last night filled my eyes...
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ARTICLE An Unhealed Wound Commonweal and Humanae Vitae Millions of words have been written in response to Humanae vitae, Pope Paul Vl's much contested 1968 encyclical reasserting the church's...
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FILM Worthy of His Name WIM WENDERS DISCUSSES 'POPE FRANCIS: A MAN OF HIS WORD' In May Commonweal hosted an advance screening of Wim Wenders's new documentary, Pope Francis: A Man of His Word....
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BOOKS Ingrid Rowland From Eternity to Here The Rome We Have Lost John Pemble Oxford University Press, $24.95, 192 pp. Rome may be the Eternal City, but even eternal cities change. John Pemble...
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LAST WORD What Were We Waiting For? Marc Barnes As a poor undergraduate, I once had to borrow a tie for Easter. It was an ecumenical exchange. My dorm-mate was a newly minted member of the...
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FOUND IN THE CITY —-for Mo With the feel of your lip balm I walk through the light, sharp distance of skyline, sun setting behind— did we notice the foam from the Con Edison plant, the waves...
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Vol. 145 Issue 010 (June 1 2018)
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