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IssueVol. 146 Issue 005 (March 8 2019)
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Paid articleLetters
LETTERS Prosecuting under RICO, VirilioS vision ...BUT WAY TOO CLOSE I was astonished to read Cathleen Ka-veny's column on the RICO statute ("Not the Mafia," February 8). I expect most readers...
Paid articleOne Step Forward
FROM THE EDITORS One Step Forward In the lead-up to last month's four-day Vatican summit on the sexual abuse of minors, organizers made a concerted effort to lower expectations. A crisis decades...
Paid articleRacism in America
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Racism in America WE'VE COME A LONG WAY BUT STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO Will the United States ever escape its racist history? Some people naively imagined...
Paid articleCatholic Moral Theology in Crisis?
Kaveny, Cathleen
Cathleen Kaveny Catholic Moral Theology in Crisis ? NOT SO FAST Every few years, someone complains about the state of Catholic theology. A few years ago, Paul Griffiths used his plenary address...
Paid articleTeilhard & Eugenics
Slattery, John P.
CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION John P. Slattery Teilhard & Eugenics A RESPONSE TO JOHN HAUGHT Iwas eighteen when I first encountered the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. It was the second week...
Paid articleA World without the West
Bacevich, Andrew J.
SHORT TAKES Andrew J. Bacevich A World without the West LEARNING TO LIVE 'WITHOUT' THE FREE WORLD Does the West still exist? Most American politicians, journalists, and policy intellectuals seem...
Paid articleHave the Bishops Learned Anything?
Ivereigh, Austen
Austen Ivereigh Have the Bishops Learned Anything? THE VATICAN SUMMIT ON SEX ABUSE The contrast was little short of amazing. On the one hand, you had the experience inside the synod hall by the...
Paid articleIn the Windy Room
Staples, Catherine
IN THE WINDY ROOM Curtains buckle and fly. The sky is marbled, ragged scraps of debris tumble for the sea. God has gone off somewhere—it's too much this— the current of your breath ebbs,...
Paid articleThe Ones Ignored
Moses, Paul
Paul Moses The Ones Ignored UNDERSTANDING THE NEW YORK STATE ABORTION LAW In the midst of the battle over a new abortion law in New York State, Cardinal Timothy Dolan suggested that a true...
Paid articleBringing the Workers on Board
Mazewski, Matt
ARTICLES Bringing the Workers on Board The Catholic Roots of Codetermination Matt Mazewski Judging by the suite of bills Elizabeth Warren has introduced in the U.S. Senate over the past year,...
Paid articleA Steady Hand
Donahue, William Collins
A Steady Hand Angela MerkeVs Legacy William Collins Donahue Deidre Berger, the former NPR correspondent in Berlin, once reflected on the challenge of bringing foreign news to an American...
Paid articleShipwrecked, Dreaming
Staples, Catherine
SHIPWRECKED, DREAMING I've stood in the room where he slept, windows facing the race to the sea. Thoreau would've taken the dimensions at a glance. But the gruff sound of the interior...
Paid articleNever Look Away
Cooper, Rand Richards
FILM Rand Richards Cooper Meaning & Mirage 'NEVER LOOK AWAY' It would be hard to imagine a more auspicious directorial debut than The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's 2006...
Paid articleThe Curse of Bigness
Pasquale, Frank
BOOKS Frank Pasquale How Antitrust Law Lost Its Bite The Curse of Bigness Antitrust in the New Gilded Age Tim Wu Columbia Global Reports, $14.99, 154 pp. Tim Wu's The Curse of Bigness is a...
Paid articleHippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake
McDonough, Mary
Mary McDonough Do No Harm Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake The Birth of the Medical Profession T. A. Cavanaugh Oxford University Press, $29.95, 192 pp. In October 1789, a physician...
Paid articleThem
Vischer, Robert K.
Robert K. Vischer A Moynihan of the Right? Them Why We Hate Each Other —and How to Heal Ben Sasse St. Martin's Press, $28.99, 288 pp. Our red state-blue state narrative and Trump-dominated...
Paid articleNarrative Loop
McClay, B. D.
ARTS B. D. McClay Narrative Loop WHICH DECISIONS REALLY MATTER? Russian Doll, a Netflix series released last month, follows a woman as she lives and dies over and over. Every time she dies, she...
Paid articleCommonweal Associates
THANK YOU THANK YOU, COMMONWEAL ASSOCIATES Every year at this time we thank our Commonweal Associates. Their generous support makes possible our expansion into digital media, outreach to new...
Paid articleCollege Subscription Program
THE COLLEGE SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAM This program makes free subscriptions available to promising undergraduate and graduate students at dozens of Catholic and secular campuses. Anonymous (3) Frank...
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THE EDWARD SKILLIN SOCIETY Members of the Skillin Society are providing for Commonweal's future through bequests and Other forms of planned giving. Stanley Bailey Suzanne McSorley & Thomas...
Paid articleI Thought I Knew Him
Unger, David J.
LAST WORD I Thought I Knew Him David J. Unger We were still very new to the faith when my then-fiancee, Rachel, bought Magnificat's 2018 calendar and proposed we hang it on our kitchen wall....
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