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 Vol. 146 Issue 012 (July 5 2019)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Seminarians, vocations, etc. ISOLATION IS THE PROBLEM Pope St. John Paul II wrote Pastores dabo vobis, which C.Colt Anderson and Christopher M. Bellitto cite ("Scarlet Fever," April 12),...
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Stumbling toward War
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FROM THE EDITORS Stumbling toward War Since the June 13 attack on a pair of oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, tensions between the United States and Iran have escalated significantly. Iran's...
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Stepping Back
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Stepping Back THINKING IN AN AGE OF ADRENALINE We live in fraught times. Okay, that's a cliche. Maybe the "fraughtest times"? "An age of adrenaline"? Trade...
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The Future of Social Security
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MORRIS, CHARLES R.
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Charles R. Morris The Future of Social Security DON'T CUT BENEFITS. RAISE TAXES. The New York Times recently delivered a full-page reminder that we are coming up on crucial policy decisions about...
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Remembering Nicholas Clifford
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O'Brien, George Dennis
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IN MEMORIAM George Dennis O'Brien North Star REMEMBERING NICHOLAS CLIFFORD (1930-2019) In May 2016, Commonweal published an essay by Nicholas Clifford about Simon Leys, a scholar of Chinese art,...
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The Web of Life
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Cloutier, David
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SHORT TAKES David Cloutier The Web of Life WHY WE SHOULD CARE ABOUT THE LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY When I teach Pope Francis's Laudato si'to seminarians, I point out that he gives considerable...
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Modi's 'Mother India'
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Lobo, Nicole-Ann
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Nicole-Ann Lobo Modi's 'Mother India' NATIONALISM IN THE WORLD'S LARGEST DEMOCRACY National elections in India, the world's largest democracy, are a long and grueling process. This year's were...
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The "Regina Caeli"
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Little, Judy
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THE "REGINA CAELI" Alleluia-minimalist, elegant, as though a second Gabriel addresses the Queen of Heaven, to say: Alleluia(almost by-the-way) The created space-time dust ( just...
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Listening to the Laity
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McDonald, Emma
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Emma McDonald Listening to the Laity CONSCIENCE & REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY In the musical Li'lAbner, a ragtag crew of townspeople develop a potent potion called "Yokumberry Tonic" that has the...
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Looking Up at El Capitan
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Otten, Charlotte F.
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LOOKING UP AT EL CAPITAN As I watch quirky clouds capture Yosemite's sky-piercing peak, iPhones catch climbers high-hanging, reaching up for an amenable rock. Rogue showers wring out colors in...
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'Turn the Page'
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McCarraher, Eugene
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ARTICLES 'Turn the Page' The Romantic Socialism of William Morris Eugene McCarraher It was the summer of 1889, and William Morris was reclining in the shade of an elm tree somewhere in...
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The Death of a Mental Patient
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Neugeboren, Jay
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The Death of a Mental Patient What My Brother Gave Me Jay Neugeboren On the evening of October 28, 2015, three days after my brother Robert's death, I held a memorial service for him in my...
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First Love
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Rybicki, Stephen
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FIRST LOVE For a long—long Time I couldn't remember Your name— The word for you I had forgotten But carried the image Within me like First love—a ghost that hid In an empty room Behind a...
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Motherhouse of Cinema
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LaCouter, Travis
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SCREEN Travis LaCouter Motherhouse of Cinema LETTER FROM CANNES The city of Cannes on the Cote d'Azur has long been a place of retreat. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the Lord...
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When They See Us
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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Rand Richards Cooper The Exonerated Five 'WHEN THEY SEE US' Americans fifty and up will recall the notorious 1989 case of five teenagers of color accused of brutalizing a white woman jogging in...
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The Second Mountain
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Bacevich, Andrew J.
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BOOKS Andrew J. Bacevich Pundit on a Pilgrimage The Second Mountain The Quest for a Moral Life David Brooks Random House, $28, 384 pp. David Brooks eludes easy classification. To call him a...
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Hard to Love
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Lucky, Katherine
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Katherine Lucky Friends & Benefits Hard to Love Essays and Confessions Briallen Hopper Bloomsbury Publishing, $27, 336 pp. Iagree with Briallen Hopper about a lot of things. Let's start there....
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God's Library
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Johnson, Luke Timothy
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Luke Timothy Johnson How We Got the Good Book God's Library The Archeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts Brent Nongbri Yale University Press, $35, 416 pp. Only two biblical topics...
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Fireworks
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Ryan, Jerry
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LAST WORD Fireworks Jerry Ryan For perhaps ten years, on the evening before every Fourth of July, there were fireworks over Boston Harbor synchronized with Handel's "Royal Hymn to Fireworks."...
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