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 Vol. 147 Issue 001 (January 1 2020)
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Scandinavian social programs, defending indigenous land & Barr's micro-morality TRILLION, WITH A ‘T' Max Foley-Keene (“Equality Isn't Cheap,” November) makes fundamental sense of a key to...
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Impeachment is not a sham
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FROM THE EDITORS Not a Sham Three years after his January 2017 inauguration, Donald Trump faces trial in the U.S. Senate on two articles of impeachment approved in December by the House of...
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Progressive DAs
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Munch, Regina
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COMMENT The Afghanistan Papers The Washington Post's “Afghanistan Papers” story was disheartening and in many ways infuriating, but it was not shocking or even surprising. The grim facts are...
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Food-stamp cuts
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Oleynick, Griffin
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Food-Stamp Cuts Come April, many Americans will have a much harder time finding food, thanks to the major cuts to SNAP announced by the Trump administration last month. A new eligibility rule...
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How Michael Bloomberg uses his fortune for political leverage
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Moses, Paul
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COLUMNS PAUL MOSES Money Well Spent How Michael Bloomberg uses his personal fortune for political leverage As mayor of the nation's largest city for twelve years, Michael Bloomberg enjoyed...
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The Catholic Church is wrong about gay people
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Reilly, Mollie Wilson O’
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MOLLIE WILSON O'REILLY A Harmful Doctrine The Catholic teaching about gay people is not just an error. It's a barrier to compelling political witness. Look, it's 2020, so I'm just going to say...
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Our Lady of Guadalupe and the story of America
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Matovina, Timothy
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SHORT TAKES TIMOTHY MATOVINA ‘Wipe Away Many Tears' Our Lady of Guadalupe and the story of America Five centuries ago, on Good Friday in 1519, Hernan Cortes and his band of conquistadores landed...
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Remembering Johann Baptist Metz
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Bauerschmidt, Frederick Christian
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SHORT TAKES FREDERICK CHRISTIAN BAUERSCHMIDT Against Bourgeois Religion For Johann Baptist Metz, the chief source of both danger and consolation in Christianity was Jesus himself. The German...
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The new abbess
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Bacevich, Andrew J.
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SHORT TAKES ANDREW J. BACEVICH The New Abbess Encountering ‘hidden fruitfulness' in dark times I ndulge me in this statement of the obvious: these are difficult days in which to be a Roman...
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Two poems
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Swann, Brian
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POETRY Two poems by Brian Swann COMPAGNI I look over the parapet where trees hang rags and condoms like ornaments from the last flood, and try to kick myself free of porno sheets wrapping...
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What an experimental forest can teach us about ‘integral ecology’
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Miller, Vincent
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ARTICLE A Cathedral Not Made by Hands Vincent Miller What an experimental forest can teach us about the ‘integral ecology' of Laudato si' In Laudato si', Pope Francis offers a vision of moral...
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Idolatry in the twenty-first century
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Cavanaugh, William T.
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ARTICLE Strange Gods William T. Cavanaugh Idolatry in the twenty-first century A hundred years ago, the famed German sociologist Max Weber published a revised edition of his classic work....
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How the historical-critical method changed the study of early Christianity
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Hollerich, Michael
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ARTICLE Controlling the Narrative Michael Hollerich How the historical-critical method changed the study of early Christianity— for better and for worse THE FATHERS REFOUNDED Protestant...
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Pilgrims
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Hill, Kathleen
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PERSONAL ESSAY Pilgrims Kathleen Hill A friend of ours celebrating her birthday in early June rented a house in the Loire Valley and invited her closest friends to visit for a couple of weeks. My...
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‘The Two Popes’
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Ferrone, Rita
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SCREEN RITA FERRONE Papal Fiction ‘The Two Popes' The most glorious journey can begin with a mistake.” This is the observation made by Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the opening scene of...
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‘Parasite’
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Gold, Hannah
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HANNAH GOLD Zombie Flick ‘Parasite' A parasite is a homemaker. It makes a home inside its host. One might expect a certain decorum between parasite and host, then, a nod to nature going right...
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The Enchantments of Mammon
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Hart, David Bentley
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BOOKS Misenchantment DAVID BENTLEY HART THE ENCHANTMENTS OF MAMMON How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity eugene mccarraher Harvard University Press, $39.95, 816 pp. Icome to praise...
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Can Francis Change the Church?
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Dallavalle, Nancy
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BOOKS How Francis Plays in Peoria NANCY DALLAVALLE CAN FRANCIS CHANGE THE CHURCH? How American Catholics Are Responding to His Leadership thomas sweetser, sj Crossroad, $16.95, 176 pp. F...
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The Existentialist’s Survival Guide
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Knepper, Steven
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BOOKS Philosopher in the Ring STEVEN KNEPPER THE EXISTENTIALIST'S SURVIVAL GUIDE How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age gordon marino HarperOne, $16.99, 272 pp. G ordon Marino...
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Standing for Reason
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Brien, George Dennis O’
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BOOKS American Universities Abroad GEORGE DENNIS O'BRIEN John Secton Standing for Reason The University in a Dogmatic Age STANDING FOR REASON The University in a Dogmatic Age john...
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Books In Brief
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BOOKS BOOKS IN BRIEF In his new book Code Red, Washington Post columnist and Commonweal contributing writer E. J. Dionne Jr. addresses all Americans who see the Trump presidency as existentially...
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Coventry
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Baumann, Paul
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BOOKS The Story or the Truth? PAUL BAUMANN COVENTRY rachel cusk Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27, 250 pp. R achel Cusk, the best-selling British author of what has been called the “Outline”...
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A Pilgrimage to Eternity
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Ramos, Santiago
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BOOKS No-Bullshit Spirituality SANTIAGO RAMOS A PILGRIMAGE TO ETERNITY From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith timothy egan Viking, $28, 384 pp. H iking somewhere near the Italian...
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The World of the Crusades
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Noble, Thomas F. X.
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BOOKS Signed by the Cross THOMAS F. X. NOBLE THE WORLD OF THE CRUSADES An Illustrated History christopher tyerman Yale University Press, $35, 520 pp. David Aubert, Conquest of Constantinople...
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Feathers
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Sturges, Rachel
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LAST WORD Feathers RACHEL STURGES Afew weeks after my four-year-old son's emergency appendectomy, I notice how often he collects feathers. Toby finds dirty white herring gull feathers on the...
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