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 Vol. 147 Issue 003 (March 1 2020)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS A question about idolatry, finding acceptance in God PROSTRATING? I greatly appreciate Rita Ferrone's recent article about the Amazon Synod (“A Hermeneutic of Suspicion,” December). It...
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Trump’s budget
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Trump's Budget President Donald Trump's $4.8 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2021 is a clear and damning statement of his administration's policy priorities. It would hamstring many...
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The coronavirus
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Lucky, Katherine
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COMMENT The New Travel Ban Amid the din of the final days of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, his effort to keep America white almost failed to register. Announced in late January and set to take...
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Primary choices
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Sitman, Matthew
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Primary Choices If you read only the New York Times and Washington Post, or watch cable news, you might not know that Bernie Sanders is the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination....
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The fullness of time
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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COLUMNS CATHLEEN KAVENY The Fullness of Time Encountering death as a daughter—and a theologian My mother died last summer— after a long illness, as the saying goes. Her mind was fierce, sharp,...
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Is Europe falling apart?
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Steinfels, Margaret O’Brien
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MARGARET O'BRIEN STEINFELS Is Europe Falling Apart? The Continent's postwar settlement has kept the peace for seventy-five years. Can it survive the new nationalism? Europe’s post-World War II...
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Remembering Jerry Ryan
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Jordan, Patrick
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SHORT TAKES PATRICK JORDAN The Part He Played Jerry Ryan, RIP Jerry Ryan (1937-2020), Boston Irish and Lithuanian, died on January 23. He was eighty-two. The son of a policeman, he began...
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“Globus Crucigerâ€
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Martone, John
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POETRY GLOBUS CRUCIGER John Martone Outside the cinder block screen past fig tree and laurel shade hydrangeas turn whiter than handkerchiefs and blouses on the line than azaleas and snowdrops...
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The Canadian church & sex abuse
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Higgins, Michael
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SHORT TAKES MICHAEL W. HIGGINS Shattering the Illusion The Canadian church's long-delayed reckoning with sex abuse It was early December of last year when I heard an extraordinary interview with...
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Evolution & racism
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Slattery, John P.
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SHORT TAKES JOHN P. SLATTERY Evolution & Racism How embracing science has strengthened the church's commitment to equality In twenty-first-century America, science has become so politicized...
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Gabriel Marcel
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Knepper, Steven
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SHORT TAKES STEVEN KNEPPER From Problem to Mystery How Gabriel Marcel's wartime experiences shaped his philosophy Late in the summer of 1914, before the Western Front settled into its long...
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Three poemS
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Bherwani, Bhisham
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POETRY Three Poems by Bhisham Bherwani LEGACY Primed, a film of cream brushed into lather, supple to thumb and to a five-edged Schick, he arches for no pro barber his neck to tame the bristles:...
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Reading Buttigieg
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Kloppenberg, James T.
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Reading Buttigieg James T. Kloppenberg A former teacher’s perspective In 1972, I cast my first ballot in a presidential election, with pride and conviction, for George McGovern. To me and to many...
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My life as a socialist
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Steinfels, Peter
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ARTICLE Does Socialism Have a Future? PETER STEINFELS My Life as a Socialist One day in my third year of college, my French teacher asked me to speak with her after class. I was surprised. My...
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Three cheers for socialism
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Hart, David Bentley
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DAVID BENTLEY HART Three Cheers for Socialism Persons of a reflective bent all too often underestimate the enormous strength that truly abysmal ignorance can bring. Knowledge is power, of course,...
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Diane Ravitch
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Preziosi, Dominic
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INTERVIEW An interview with Diane Ravitch Don't Call It Reform Dominic Preziosi Diane Ravitch, founder and president of the Network for Public Education, is a research professor of education...
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‘Luce,’ ‘Uncut Gems,’ ‘Transit’
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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SCREEN RAND RICHARDS COOPER Oscar Oversights 'Luce,' ‘Uncut Gems,' 'Transit' Apost-Oscar cleanup yields a trio of films blithely swept aside by the Academy—all streamable, and all worth...
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Born guilty
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McClay, B. D.
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SCREEN B. D. MCCLAY Born Guilty Francesco, the son of a rich merchant of Assisi and now a prisoner of war, is being led into captivity when he hears screaming behind him. The people who are not...
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Serotonin
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Klay, Phil
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BOOKS Nothing Left Worth Saving PHIL KLAY SEROTONIN MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ TRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE Farrar, Straus and Giroux $13.99 | 320 pp. So this is Houellebecq. Revolting. I don’t...
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Converts to the Real
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Shortall, Sarah
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BOOKS God of the Continental Philosophers SARAH SHORTALL CONVERTS TO THE REAL Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy edward baring Harvard University Press $49.95 | 504 pp. For...
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The Theft of a Decade
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Williams, Conor
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BOOKS Don't Blame Boomers CONOR WILLIAMS THETHEFT DECADE THE THEFT OF A DECADE How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future JOSEPH C. STERNBERG PublicAffairs $28 | 288...
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Books In Brief
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BOOKS IN BRIEF VIGIL: HONG KONG ON THE BRINK JEFFREY WASSERSTROM Columbia Global Reports $15.99 | 120 pp. "When the snow starts melting, it melts quickly.” That's how Lord Chris Patten, the...
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Saint Patrick Retold
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Quinn, Peter
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BOOKS From Captive to Saint PETER QUINN SAINT PATRICK RETOLD The Legend and History of Ireland's Patron Saint roy flechner Princeton University Press $27.95 | 304 pp. The governor of NewYork...
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Dreams of El Dorado
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Lucky, Jared
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BOOKS Is There Still a West? JARED LUCKY DREAMS OF EL DORADO A History of the American West h. w. brands Basic Books $32 | 544 pp. Francisco Vazquez de Coronado wasn’t the first to watch...
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Jean Vanier: Portrait of a Free Man
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Baxter, Michael J.
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Hospitality & Holiness MICHAEL J. BAXTER JEAN VANIER: PORTRAIT OF A FREE MAN anne-sophie constant translated by allen page Plough Publishing House $17.89 | 162 pp. When Jean Vanier died in...
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A second death
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Ryan, Jerry
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LAST WORD A Second Death JERRY RYAN I might imagine the dead waking, dazed into a shadowless light in which they know themselves altogether for the first time. It is a light that is merciless...
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“Matinsâ€
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Brackett, Judy
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POETRY MATINS Judy Brackett I Yesterday, birds found their way under the netting, beaked off most of the strawberries. The birds’ gift—next summer more wild strawberry plants scrambling over...
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