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Vol. 146 Issue 009 (May 17 2019)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Letters
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LETTERS The decline of the West, taxing the rich THE GOSPEL BEYOND THE WEST In his article "A World without the West" (March 22), Andrew Bacevich points to the radical change in the geopolitical...
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The Sri Lankan Martyrs
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FROM THE EDITORS The Sri Lankan Martyrs On the morning of Easter Sunday, April 21, a man walked into St. Anthony's Shrine in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, and detonated a bomb during Mass,...
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Evangelization First
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Ivereigh, Austen
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SHORT TAKES Austen Ivereigh Evangelization First HOW A NEW VACTICAN CONSTITUTION WILL EMBODY NEW PRIORITIES The long-expected new constitution mapping out the future shape of the Vatican...
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Don't Blame the Patriarchy
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Ferrone, Rita
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Rita Ferrone Don't Blame the Patriarchy WHAT THE 'WOMEN CHURCH WORLD' RESIGNATIONS REALLY MEAN I've never been much enamored of the idea of a "women's supplement" to L'Osservatore Romano. What...
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The Family
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Ruden, Sarah
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THE FAMILY Bright, upright, They are Like flowers in a jar. Nuzzled by eland at a zoo, Across a fence ("I'm holding you!"), The one child cringes, laughs. The other Dreamily leans against the...
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Why I Stayed...and Why I'm Leaving
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McGowan, Jo
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Jo McGowan Why I Stayed...and Why I'm Leaving My daughter Moy Moy died suddenly and unexpectedly in July 2018. My first Commonweal column—written in 1999 when she was ten years old—was about her....
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At Kilometer Zero
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Schaefer, Christopher
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Christopher Schaefer At Kilometer Zero WITNESSING THE NOTRE-DAME FIRE On Monday, April 15, I was meeting with the former head archivist of the International Herald Tribune in a cafe behind the...
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New Moon
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Cadnum, Michael
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NEW MOON after Brigit Pegeen Kelly I wanted a creature—a bird, perhaps, or an animal that glides even if it cannot fly, an ocelot, or a seal, but I got a planet, maybe because I checked a box...
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May Day Saint
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Dettloff, Dean
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Dean Dettloff May Day Saint THE RADICAL MINISTRY OF FR. THOMAS HAGERTY When Fr. Thomas J. Hagerty arrived at Our Lady of Victory Church in Paris, Texas, in 1901, he quickly grew incensed by the...
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Whose Laughter, Which Comedy?
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Eagleton, Terry
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ARTICLE Whose Laughter, Which Comedy? The Politics of Humor Terry Eagleton The governing elites of ancient and medieval Europe were not greatly hospitable to humor. From the earliest times,...
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Us & The Brink
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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FILM Rand Richards Cooper Creepy and Creepier 'US' & 'THE BRINK' Jordan Peele's 2017 smash debut, Get Out, was the rare film that manages to be absurd, hilarious, and deadly serious all at once....
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Secularism and Cosmopolitanism
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Griffiths, Paul J.
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BOOKS Paul J. Griffiths No Neutral Ground Secularism and Cosmopolitanism Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics Etienne Balibar Columbia University Press, $28, 288 pp. There are...
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Nobody's Looking at You
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Baumann, Paul
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Paul Baumann Relentless Interrogator Nobody's Looking at You Essays Janet Malcolm Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 304 pp. Janet Malcolm, a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New...
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The Source of Self-Regard
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Sayers, Valerie
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Valerie Sayers From Data to Wisdom The Source of Self-Regard Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations Toni Morrison Knopf, $28.95, 368 pp. Toni Morrison is a towering figure in contemporary...
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The Splintering of the American Mind
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Lakeland, Paul
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Paul Lakeland College as Department Store The Splintering of the American Mind Identity Politics, Inequality, and Community on Today's College Campuses William Egginton Bloomsbury, $28, 272...
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Hate Is An Echo
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Liebler, M. L.
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HATE IS AN ECHO The politics of hate is a hollow echo Inside an empty seed of imagination. Stunted ancient bitterness descending Twisting and banging At the backdoor of death. A midnight branch of...
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Simon Leys
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Haggerty, Nicholas
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Nicholas Haggerty The Generalist Simon Leys Navigator between Worlds Philippe Paquet Translated by Julie Rose La Trobe University Press, $59.99, 692 pp. In the second half of the twentieth...
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Perchik, Simon
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There are no splinters though this door is still making room for the sea to come inside—even without water these walls become sails, their corners opening as if this pillow is reaching out...
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religion booknotes
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Johnson, Luke Timothy
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Religion Booknotes Luke Timothy Johnson John Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators translated and edited by Bryan A. Stewart and Michael A. Thomas Eerdmans, $65.00, 684...
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The Mildred Mysteries
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Volkmer, Jon
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LAST WORD The Mildred Mysteries Jon Volkmer 've kept my father's rosary in the top drawer of my desk since his funeral sixteen years ago. I've taken it out, held it, stared at the tiny wooden...
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