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 Vol. 146 Issue 013 (August 9 2019)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS A debate on Christian flesh, a story about Fr. Hesburgh BODY LANGUAGE I’m grateful to John Cavadini for his characteristically thoughtful reading of my book Christian Flesh (“Wounds &...
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Cross the Bridge
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FROM THE EDITORS Cross the Bridge Much has been written, in these pages and elsewhere, about how the sex-abuse crisis has undermined the credibility and moral authority of Catholic bishops....
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Enchanter
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Deen, Rosemary
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IN MEMORIAM Rosemary Deen Enchanter MARIE PONSOT (1921–2019) We mourn the death of our friend and colleague, the poet Marie Ponsot, who died at ninety-eight on Friday, July 5. Writing...
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Cruelty's the Point
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Munch, Regina
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COLUMNIST Regina Munch Cruelty’s the Point PUNISHING HUMANITARIAN ACTIVISTS AT THE BORDER On July 2, federal prosecutors announced that they would retry Scott Warren, an activist with the...
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Why the 'Metropolitan Plan' Doesn't Work
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Ferrone, Rita
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SHORT TAKES Rita Ferrone Why the ‘Metropolitan Plan’ Doesn’t Work EXHIBIT A: BISHOP BRANSFIELD The now-glaring weakness of the USCCB’s 2002 Dallas Charter for the Protection of Children...
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Weasel
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Cadnum, Michael
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WEASEL He thought little of the cattle-freight rumbling on its rails, the paddocks of horses, the sheepfold always crammed with living wool. Frost on the flatland coursed beneath him, and the...
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Between Two Borises
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Ivereigh, Austen
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Austen Ivereigh Between Two Borises WILL THE UNITED KINGDOM’S NEW PRIME MINISTER LEAD IT OFF A CLIFF? Because I appeared on TV and seemed to know a few people in public life, the woman who...
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The Pope's Relic Diplomacy
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Demacopoulos, George E.
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George E. Demacopoulos The Pope’s Relic Diplomacy CAN A BONE SHARD MEND A SCHISM? In June 594, Pope Gregory the Great received a letter from Constantina, the Byzantine empress, asking him to...
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In a Palace
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Ruden, Sarah
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IN A PALACE Not through the high, the blank, the bronze-knobbed door He comes home, weaned. What is the child, Compared to everything that came before? He’ll guard these sunny reaches when he’s...
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Does Church Teaching Change?
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O'Malley, John W.
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ARTICLES Does Church Teaching Change? The Development of Doctrine at Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II John W. O’Malley This article is an excerpt from When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing...
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Selves Are Not Food
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Griffiths, Paul J.
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Selves Are Not Food Christine Korsgaard’s Case for Animal Rights Paul J. Griffiths In her new book, Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals (Oxford University Press, $24.95,...
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Workers of the World
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Giraldi, William
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Workers of the World Fiction William Giraldi Vin’s bogus suicide scrawl lay pinned beneath an ashtray filled with an alp of smashed Camels—we saw it on the folding table when we entered...
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Trees Where Columns Stood
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Brandon-Salmon, Altair
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TRAVEL Altair Brandon-Salmon Trees Where Columns Stood LONDON’S MEMORIAL CHURCH RUINS Laurence Olivier’s camera pans across an abstract, Technicolor land of painted hills and...
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Dreamland & Call My Agent
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Wren, Celia
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SCREEN Celia Wren It’s Not Just Us ‘DREAMLAND’ & ‘CALL MY AGENT’ Comedy is not supposed to travel well. It’s perhaps for that reason that, at a moment when world television is more accessible...
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Abel and Cain
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Cotter, John
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BOOKS John Cotter Danses Macabres Abel and Cain Gregor von Rezzori translated from the German by David Dollenmayer, Joachim Neugroschel, and Marshall Yarbrough NYRB Classics, $24.95, 864...
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My Father Left Me Ireland
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Ramos, Santiago
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Santiago Ramos Father Land My Father Left Me Ireland An American Son’s Search for Home Michael Brendan Dougherty Sentinel, $24, 240 pp. As a Paraguayan immigrant growing up in the pristine...
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The Meaning of Life
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Jeffreys, Derek S.
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Derek S. Jeffreys The Purposes of Punishment The Meaning of Life The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis Featuring six portraits of lifers by Kerry Myers The New...
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Liberty in the Things of God
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Oakley, Francis
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Francis Oakley Throne & Altar Liberty in the Things of God The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom Robert Louis Wilken Yale University Press, $26, 248 pp. The title of this...
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Where We Come From
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Lobo, Nicole-Ann
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Nicole-Ann Lobo A Brownsville Summer Where We Come From Oscar Cásares Knopf, $25.95, 272 pp. Does our place of origin determine who we are? The question confronts all those who leave their...
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More than Cricket
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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LAST WORD More than Cricket Rand Richards Cooper The best book I read last year was written in 1963—not exactly au courant. Still, few works better withstand the test of time than Beyond a...
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