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January
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 Vol. 147 Issue 002 (February 1 2020)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS
The bishops’‘preeminent priority,’
supporting LGBTQ couples, etc.
CONSISTENT ETHIC I’m writing to respond to Matthew Sitman’s alarm about how the U.S. bishops prioritized the...
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Trump & Iran
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“H e was saying bad things about our country, like we’re going to attack, we’re going to kill your people. I said, ‘Listen, how much of this shit do we have to listen to, right?’” That...
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Australia on fire
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Munch, Regina
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COMMENT
American Gangsters
he same day that the articles of impeachment of Donald Trump were delivered to the U.S. Senate, Lev Parnas—an associate of Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy...
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The opioid crisis
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Lucky, Katherine
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The Opioid Crisis
n early September, Purdue Pharma tentatively settled lawsuits with thousands of municipal govern ments and almost two dozen states. Purdue, the plaintiffs argued, had...
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For the Love of the Word
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Ferrone, Rita
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COLUMNS
RITA FERRONE For the Love of the Word Francis inaugurates the ‘Sunday of the Word of God’ to renew Catholics’ relationship with Scripture. ope Francis has been acclaimed by the...
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Which Ratzinger?
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Faggioli, Massimo
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MASSIMO FAGGIOLI Which Ratzinger? How the pope emeritus is damaging his own legacy he publication of From the Depths of Our Hearts, Cardinal Robert Sarah’s book on clerical celibacy...
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A Short-Sighted Rebuke
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Driessen, Michael
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SHORT TAKES
MICHAEL DRIESSEN
A Short-
Sighted
Rebuke
Why it was a mistake for Austria to close a Saudi-funded center for interreligious dialogue n June, the Austrian Parliament...
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'True Indians'?
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SHORT TAKES
OUR CORRESPONDENT IN INDIA ‘True Indians’? In India, the Modi government is scapegoating Muslims to distract from the country’s most pressing problems. But citizens are...
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Beyond Impeachment
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Bacevich, Andrew J.
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SHORT TAKES
ANDREW J. BACEVICH
Beyond Impeachment Our political crisis will outlast this presidency. ith the impeachment process hurtling toward its conclusion, the endgame has...
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Misreading the British Elections
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Sitman, Matthew
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SHORT TAKES
MATTHEW SITMAN Misreading the British Elections Corbyn is no Sanders, Johnson is no Trump. n the weeks leading up to the Con servative Party’s triumph in the British...
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Speaking Love to Power
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McCarraher, Eugene
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ARTICLE
Speaking Love to Power Eugene McCarraher Theodore Roszak’s visionary commonwealth
“T heodore Roszak, ’60s Expert, Dies at 77,” read the headline of a New York Times obituary...
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More than a Symbol
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Steinfels, Peter
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ARTICLE
More than
a Symbol
Peter Steinfels Are liberal Catholics too quick to dismiss evidence that belief in the Real Presence may be declining? N o signature phrase from the...
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"After Paradise"
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Kirby, Mark
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POETRY AFTER PARADISE Mark Kirby Reading Dante changes everything: the vision is the fact and the vision an eternal spring an angel-muse makes exact of innocence, at journey’s end given back;...
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Giving Doctors a Say
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Redinger, Michael
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ARTICLE
GivingDoctors a Say Michael Redinger Why Catholic end-of-life ethics needs to integrate the concept of futility T he tragic cases of British infants Charlie Gard and Alfie...
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"Invitation to the Unknowing"
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Hickman, Sr. Lou Ella
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POETRY
INVITATION TO THE UNKNOWING Sr. Lou Ella Hickman inside the silence wait... a lotus .oats petals slowly open... welcome its white .ame on the pond of your sacred darkness SR....
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American paganism
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Albertson, David
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American
Paganism
David Albertson It’s not what the Religious Right thinks it is.
C laims of moral decline are a perennial feature of conservative rhetoric. But in recent years, pro-Trump...
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Taken by Storm
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Burt, Stephanie
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ARTICLE
Taken by Storm
Stephanie Burt The poetry of Samuel Menashe S een from one angle, Samuel Menashe’s poems belong squarely in a tradition of verse construction that spans...
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Three poems by Samuel Menashe
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THREE POEMS BY SAMUEL MENASHE Paradise: After Giovanni Di Paolo Paradise is a grove Where .ower and fruit tree Form oval petals and pears And apples only fair... Among these saunter saints Who...
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Melissa Rogers
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Gehring, John
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INTERVIEW
M elissa Rogers was executive director of the An interview with Melissa Rogers White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships under President Barack Obama. She is...
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"Stanzas on Time and Grief"
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Kirby, Mark
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POETRY STANZAS ON TIME AND GRIEF Mark Kirby *
Speedometer decades approach escape
velocity—this seventy business is gape
of a vacuum—quick sixty too, too fast
a minimum, that couldn’t...
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Deepening the Riddle
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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SCREEN
RAND RICHARDS COOPER Deepening the Riddle
‘A Hidden Life’
s there a contemporary director who can match Terrence Malick for enigmatic genius? A summa cum laude philosophy...
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Lifeline
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Munch, Regina
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ARTS
REGINA MUNCH Lifeline
Nick Cave’s ‘Ghosteen’ ver three decades, the Australian musician Nick Cave has turned out a genre-span ning body of work, from the snarling...
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Is There an Alternative?
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Mazewski, Matt
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BOOKS
Is There an
Alternative?
MATT MAZEWSKI ot too long after I started graduate school, a right-leaning relative who had heard that I studied economics asked me what my area of...
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Conversion First
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Ashley, J. Matthew
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BOOKS
Conversion First
J. MATTHEW ASHLEY ounded Shepherd is the follow-up to Austen Ivereigh’s 2013 biography of Pope Francis, The Great Reformer. The new book covers Francis’s...
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Is Everyone Female?
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Tushnet, Eve
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BOOKS
Is Everyone Female?
EVE TUSHNET veryone is female, and everyone hates it.” This is the thesis of Andrea Long Chu’s performatively edgy, frequently hilarious chapbook, Females,...
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Divided by a Common Language
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Ryan, Patrick
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BOOKS
Divided by a Common Language PATRICK RYAN estern views of the Arab peoples have long been rife with misconceptions. In late nineteenth-cen tury America, the term “street Arabs”...
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No Longer Peripheral
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Baldelomar, César J.
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BOOKS
No Longer
Peripheral
CÉSAR J. BALDELOMAR here are currently 60 million Latinos living in the United States.They are the nation’s largest “minority” group, and in 2018 accounted...
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Books in Brief
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BOOKS IN BRIEF
Letters selected from a lifetime of correspondence shed fresh light on the insights and anxieties of the author of one of America’s greatest novels. Readers can trace...
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The Reasons for Our Rights
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Hammer, Chris
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BOOKS
The Reasons for Our Rights CHRIS HAMMER he National Ri.e Association and the American Civil Liberties Union seem to approach the political and legal issues of the day from...
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Language & conversion
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Gee, Melody S.
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LAST WORD
Language &
Conversion
MELODY S. GEE I say I grew up bilingual, but the truth is more about
loss than duality. My earliest language was Mandarin,
spoken by caregivers...
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