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 Vol. 146 Issue 015 (October 1 2019)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Against the new nationalism: an open letter Each day more signs point to a tremendous shift in American conservatism away from the prior consensus and toward the new nationalism of Donald...
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Francis and the spirit of fraternity
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FROM THE EDITORS Francis and the Spirit of Fraternity The extraordinary images of Francis's trip to the African nations of Mozambique, Mauritius, and Madagascar last month illustrate the...
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The hypocrisy of immigrant hardliners
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Moses, Paul
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COLUMNS PAUL MOSES Cuccinelli Pulls Up the Ladder The Trump administration's immigration hardliners seem to be suffering from amnesia. Ken Cuccinelli was not the first federal official to rewrite...
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What the Virgin of Talpa taught me
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Incognitus, Fr.
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COLUMNS FR. INCOGNITUS Miracle Worker What the Virgin of Talpa taught me Editors' Note: From 2009 until 2017, Fr. John Baran wrote a regular column for Commonweal under the pseudonym “Fr....
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"Repentance"
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Ruden, Sarah
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POETRY REPENTANCE Sarah Ruden Too bad to stay here Until the snow. How do the birds live? Where does the sky go? Who can afford us? We'll be let out For good and all: Raw paws, bruised...
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The family-leave impasse
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Cloutier, David
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SHORT TAKES DAVID CLOUTIER The FamilyLeave Impasse What Catholic social teaching can teach both parties While the United States has had protected family leave since the Family and Medical...
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Crackdown in Kashmir
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Lobo, Nicole-Ann
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SHORT TAKES NICOLE-ANN LOBO The Crackdown in Kashmir Another casualty to Narendra Modi's Hindu-nationalist agenda Since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, the disputed territory...
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Ireland's unremembered anniversary
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Rodden, John; Rossi, John P.
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SHORT TAKES JOHN RODDEN AND JOHN P. ROSSI From Ireland to Israel, and Beyond Why the Irish War of Independence still matters—and is too often forgotten On St. Patrick's Day 2019, Americans all...
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Remembering Fr. August Thompson
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Hillis, Gregory K.
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SHORT TAKES GREGORY K. HILLIS A Sign of Contradiction Remembering Fr. August Thompson E arlier this year, on August 10, Fr. August Thompson died at the age of ninety-three. He was a black...
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Two poems
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Kaufman, Andrew; Alland, Sonia
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POETRY Two Poems by Salvador Espriu Translated from the Catalan by Andrew Kaufman and Sonia Alland CATALAN On the wet spring sand I hold the balance of an architectural order. Subtle, pious,...
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Luigi Sturzo & Christian democracy
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Faggioli, Massimo
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ARTICLE Sturzo in Exile Massimo Faggioli How an Italian priest resisted Fascism and helped reconcile the church with democracy There seems to be general agreement that liberal democracy in the...
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"Five Questions for Three Birds"
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Fowlkes, Vernon Jr.
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POETRY FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THREE BIRDS What is the knocking at the door in the night? ...it is the three strange angels Admit them, admit them. D. H. Lawrence “Song of a Man Who Has Come...
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Can the Nicaraguan church stand up to Ortega?
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Markey, Eileen
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ARTICLE When the Laity Led Eileen Markey In Nicaragua, revolutionary hope has given way to resentment and resignation. Can the popular church reclaim its role as the country's conscience? A...
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The Green Pope
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Ivereigh, Austen
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ARTICLE ‘Why Call it Progress?' Austen Ivereigh Pope Francis's radical critique of the way we live now T hough Francis might look like a raving revolutionary to the captains of capitalism, and...
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David W. Tracy
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Woodward, with Kenneth L.
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INTERVIEW An interview with David W. Tracy In Praise of Fragments Kenneth L. Woodward Photo of David Tracy by Alan Thomas F ather David W. Tracy, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, is an...
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'Mike Wallace is Here'
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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SCREEN RAND RICHARDS COOPER From Muckraking to Clickbait ‘Mike Wallace Is Here' Could there be a more timely documentary about journalism, in our era of fake news, warring cable-news shows, and...
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Dominion by Tom Holland
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Bradatan, Costica
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BOOKS Inescapable Influence COSTICA BRADATAN t is the incomplete revolutions which are remembered; the fate of those who triumph is to be taken for granted,” writes Tom Holland in his new book,...
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A Saint of Our Own
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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BOOKS Holding Out for a Hero MOLLIE WILSON O'REILLY To get a spot on the Catholic Church's official list of saints, a person needs more than a holy life. She needs witnesses to testify to that...
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Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism
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Clark, Meghan J.
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Grace over Greed MEGHAN J. CLARK o to a financial system that rules rather than serves,” writes Pope Francis in Evangelii gaudium. Astutely and prophetically, the pope decries the idolatry of...
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Books in Brief
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BOOKS BOOKS IN BRIEF Elizabeth Rush describes nightmares of drowning: sucked under the encroaching ocean, caught in the storms that batter the American coast with increasing intensity and...
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The New American Judaism
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Novick, Tzvi
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BOOKS The Author & the Expert TZVI NOVICK There are two ways of feeling at home in practicing Judaism. One is to make the Judaism that one practices an expression of oneself. The other is to...
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Religion Booknotes
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BOOKS Religion Booknotes Luke Timothy Johnson THE QUR'AN AND THE BIBLE Text and Commentary gabriel said reynolds Yale University Press, $40, 1,032 pp. The seventh-century claim that Muhammad...
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Why I came, why I stay
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Gee, Melody S.
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LAST WORD Why I Came, Why I Stay MELODY S. GEE If you count the time between attending my first Mass and receiving my first sacraments, it took me just over three years to become a Catholic. If...
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