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 Vol. 146 Issue 017 (December 1 2019)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters from the Editors
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LETTERS Better and worse nationalisms, fearing universal truths, etc. WHOSE NATIONALISM? I was impressed by the serious and worthy intentions of the open letter on “the new nationalism” in the...
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Desperate times
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FROM THE EDITORS Desperate Times Five months after Hong Kong citizens first took to the streets to protest an extradition bill proposed by the government of mainland China, they show little sign...
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A shooting every day
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Preziosi, Dominic
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COMMENT Rubio Goes Rogue The Republican Party has, for the most part, worshipped contentedly in the church of free-market fundamentalism for the past four decades. Guided by its pro-business,...
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The bishops’ preeminent priority
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Sitman, Matthew
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Preeminent? Two stories of political significance emerged from the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops last month. The first was the election of the USCCB's first Latino...
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The Velvet Revolution at thirty
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Steinfels, Margaret O’Brien
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COLUMNS MARGARET O'BRIEN STEINFELS Rereading Havel The Velvet Revolution at thirty N ovember 26 is the thirtieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, the peaceful demise of Soviet control over...
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What the culture warriors get wrong
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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CATHLEEN KAVENY Bridge Burners What the culture warriors get wrong In October, a South Carolina priest refused to give Communion to Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden because he...
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L’affaire Pachamama
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Ferrone, Rita
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SHORT TAKES RITA FERRONE A Hermeneutic of Suspicion L'affaire Pachamama The Amazon Synod was remarkable for so many good things. Pope Francis showed genuine respect to the indigenous people of...
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William Barr, Catholic moralist
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Baumann, Paul
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SHORT TAKES PAUL BAUMANN William Barr, Catholic Moralist The U.S. attorney general reduces the Gospel to a ‘micro-morality'—one that doesn't apply to his boss. I finally got around to reading...
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St. Ephrem the Syrian
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Amar, Joseph
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SHORT TAKES JOSEPH AMAR St. Ephrem's Lament Syrian Christians have been abandoned more than once. In an about-face that was as stunning as it was ill conceived, the undisputed symbol of Western...
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The Amazon synod
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Ivereigh, Austen
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ARTICLE Exposing the Spirits Austen Ivereigh What the Amazon Synod decided & what it revealed The synod on the Amazon will be remembered as the moment that bishops gathered in Rome asked the...
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G.E.M. Anscombe
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Schwenkler, John
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ARTICLE Untempted by the Consequences John Schwenkler The philosopher G.E.M. Anscombe was fearless in argument, taking on C. S. Lewis, Bernard Williams, and Harry Truman. But she believed that...
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“On the Feast of Stephenâ€
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Rybicki, Stephen
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POETRY ON THE FEAST OF STEPHEN Stephen Rybicki Wasn't it always his undying Love first attracted us And not that rogue star Made followers—nor the Creche and its accoutrements (Or the bloody...
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The last Shakers?
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Lucky, Katherine
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ARTICLE The Last Shakers? Katherine Lucky What it means to keep the faith in a religious community facing extinction Sabbathday Lake, Maine, is home to the last community of Shakers on earth....
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‘When Home Won’t Let You Stay’
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Ramos, Santiago
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ART SANTIAGO RAMOS ‘Trace of the Human' ‘When Home Won't Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art' Today more than 68.5 million people are either refugees, asylum seekers, or internally...
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‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’
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Boudway, Matthew
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STAGE MATTHEW BOUDWAY Dry Bones ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning' Will Arbery's new play, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, which was staged this fall at Playwrights Horizon in NewYork, is itself...
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‘The Irishman’
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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SCREEN RAND RICHARDS COOPER The Life You Lead ‘The Irishman' Three years ago in these pages I interviewed Martin Scorsese about his adaptation of the Shusaku Endo novel Silence. At the end of...
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The Theology of Liberalism
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Moyn, Samuel
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BOOKS Rawls & Theodicy SAMUEL MOYN A ccording to a possibly apocryphal story, one crusty political theorist wondered to another whom they should hire next, having lived through two successive...
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100 Poems
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Siadhail, Micheal O’
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BOOKS Somewhere in Between MICHEAL O'SIADHAIL S eamus Heaney's 100 Poems is a welcome and delightful selection, the first to feature work from all twelve of his original collections. Though...
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Christmas Critics
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Gee, Melody S.
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BOOKS Christmas Critics Melody S. Gee Iwas twelve when I first watched The Joy Luck Club on a library VHS. Amy Tan's novel (precursor to the film) had been released four years earlier, when I was...
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Christmas Critics
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Oleynick, Griffin
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Griffin Oleynick It was one of my more memorable Airbnb reservations—a small apartment located under the eaves of a barn, part of a working horse farm in western Massachusetts. A friend and I were...
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Christmas Critics
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Munch, Regina
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Regina Munch n n eace on earth, good will toward men,” we sing this Christmas season, echoing the words of the heavenly host in announcing Jesus' birth to the shepherds. This year I read a lot of...
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Christmas Critics
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Mills, David
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David Mills As anyone who uses Facebook knows, we too quickly explain, meaning explain away, the world and each other. It's not so simple a place, and we are not such simple beings. I recommend...
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Christmas Critics
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Simon, Isabella
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Isabella Simon I moved to New York City this summer, and despite growing up in another big city (Chicago), my new home has sometimes felt isolating and exhausting. It's difficult to navigate a...
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Christmas Critics
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Stapinski, Helene
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Helene Stapinski One of my pet peeves as a nonfiction writer is nonfiction that's presented as fiction. Maybe the writer is (A) too lazy to make sure all the facts are right; (B) not brave enough...
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Behold the child
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Noval, Roberto J. De La
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LAST WORD Behold the Child ROBERTO J. DE LA NOVAL In the Christ child, God chose to need us. This is the message of Christmas: the profound vulnerability of the divine as it divests itself of...
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