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 Vol. 147 Issue 010 (November 1 2020)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Stories of sin and redemption FLANNERY'S SINS & OURS Cathleen Kaveny makes two especially thoughtful connections in her essay on Loyola University Maryland's decision to remove Flannery...
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Democracy in America?
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FROM THE EDITORS Democracy in America? The Declaration of Independence asserts that the consent of the governed is the only foundation of legitimate government, but our nation’s history has been...
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Saving New START
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Munch, Regina
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COMMENT NagornoKarabakh On September 27, intense fighting broke out in the rugged Nagorno-Karabakh region of the southern Caucasus, shattering a shaky peace that had held for nearly three...
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Mass in the orange zone
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Moses, Paul
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The Orange Zone Here in the orange zone, it’s difficult to go to Mass on Sunday. Fearing that COVID-19’s terrifying springtime spread through Brooklyn and Queens could return, Gov. Andrew Cuomo...
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The soundtrack of ‘Fratelli tutti’
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Reynolds, Susan Bigelow
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COLUMN SUSAN BIGELOW REYNOLDS Soundtrack to an Encyclical How an Argentinian protest anthem might help us understand 'Fratelli tutti' In 1978, the Argentine folk musician Leon Gieco wrote a song...
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The moral meaning of a vote for Donald Trump
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Snyder, Timothy
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SHORT TAKES TIMOTHY SNYDER Not a Normal Election The ethical meaning of a vote for Donald Trump In normal times, we might regard any vote as ethical. To participate in an election is to...
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Sr. Thea Bowman’s challenge to the Catholic Church
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Pratt, Tia Noelle
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SHORT TAKES TIA NOELLE PRATT 'I Bring Myself, My Black Self' Sr. Thea Bowman's challenge to the Catholic Church In August Loyola University Maryland removed Flannery O’Connor’s name from a...
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“Garlicâ€
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Martone, John
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POETRY GARLIC John Martone Your forearm-long brown leaves flop and I dig you up, roots and all and all in all vellum skinned knuckle bulb little fist belonging in my hand, take me...
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Convicting Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano
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Doggett, Martha
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SHORT TAKES MARTHA DOGGETT Justice Thirty Years in the Making The conviction of Colonel Ino-cente Orlando Montano On September 11, a high court in Madrid issued the verdict, more than thirty...
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The controversy over Pius XII
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Madigan, Kevin
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ARTICLE Neither Demonic nor Heroic The latest round in the controversy over Pius XII and the Jews Kevin Madigan They abhor one who speaks the truth. (Amos 5:10) In early March, after decades of...
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Riding with the hourlies
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Neugeboren, Jay
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ARTICLE Riding with the Hourlies Jay Neugeboren What I learned as a junior-executive trainee for the General Motors Corporation On June 16, 1960, two weeks after my twenty-second birthday, I...
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The new integralism
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Troutner, Timothy
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ARTICLE The New Integralists What they get wrong, and why we can’t ignore them Timothy Troutner Just three years after the closing of the Second Vatican Council, in 1968, the prominent French...
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One Billion Americans
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Mazewski, Matt
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BOOKS Keeping Up with China MATT MAZEWSKI When the results of the 2020 census are finally tabulated, they will likely show that the U.S. population has grown to around 330 million, an increase of...
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“Untitledâ€
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Kirby, Mark
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POETRY UNTITLED Mark Kirby Days are come when pleasure is become pain, come winter short and passing and again and then again count on sleep to end their count—some quiet to attend a stay in...
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Jack
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Sayers, Valerie
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BOOKS The Possibility of Love VALERIE SAYERS Marilynne Robinson opens Jack, the fourth novel of her Gilead series, as a playwright might: dramatic dialogue commences without explanation or...
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The Math Campers
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Domestico, Anthony
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BOOKS 'Because Time' ANTHONY DOMESTICO The first words of the first poem in Dan Chiasson’s first collection, The Afterlife of Objects (2002), concerned time: “Do our words count so late at night,...
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“Coexistenceâ€
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Power, Marjorie
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POETRY COEXISTENCE Marjorie Power A philodendron comes on like a lamp as late winter sun turns a corner of this house. Such deep light! Some of it must begin inside the leaves. Across the...
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In Search of the Soul
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PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
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BOOKS A More Hospitable Framework BERNARD G. PRUSAK The first book by the English philosopher John Cotting-ham that I encountered was On the Meaning of Life (2003). There was, it struck me then,...
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Charter School City
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Schneider, Mercedes K.
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BOOKS Bad Education MERCEDES K. SCHNEIDER My family is from New Orleans. My father and his siblings grew up in a white neighborhood, intentionally zoned, and attended all-white schools in the...
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Azadi
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Lobo, Nicole-Ann
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BOOKS Warnings from India NICOLE-ANN LOBO Azadi, a word of Persion origin, resounds throughout Asia as a cry for liberation. Declared in Hindi, Urdu, Armenian, Azeri, Kashmiri, and other...
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David Jones’s ‘Resurrection’
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Powell, E.R.
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ARTS E. R. POWELL Glimpses of a New Order David Jones's 'Resurrection' Like many people living in urban and suburban areas during the COVID-19 lockdowns, I woke each morning to a slightly, yet...
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“House at Nightâ€
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Hansen, Tom
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POETRY HOUSE AT NIGHT Tom Hansen Now it is midnight. Inside the house rooms begin to change. Something in them ripens and swells and pushes against all four walls. Call it night or the...
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‘After the Fire’
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Surinyach, Anna
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CLOSING SHOT AFTER THE FIRE Anna Surinyach, 2020 I have been to the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, Europe's largest refugee camp, several times since it was built in 2015. It was...
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Faith comes through hearing
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Wiman, Christian
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LAST WORD Faith Comes Through Hearing CHRISTIAN WIMAN PRAYER Carol Ann Duffy Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her...
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