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 Vol. 147 Issue 005 (May 1 2020)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Darwin’s sins, Catholicism and philosophy, a consistent prolife agenda, etc. DARWIN’S SINS John P. Slattery is right to credit Charles Darwin’s role in creating a...
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It didn’t have to be this bad
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FROM THE EDITORS It Didn’t Have To Be This Bad The COVID-19 pandemic has been a cruel reminder that we are far more fragile, individually and collectively, than most of us imagine when times are...
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COVID-19 and education
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King, Emily
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COMMENT COVID-19 and the Food Supply How will we eat? It’s a question all Americans started asking, with varying degrees of urgency, as the pandemic shuttered restaurants and schools, and...
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COVID-19 and the church
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Munch, Regina
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COVID-19 and the Church On April 12, Catholics in the United States observed Easter Sunday mostly alone. With churches closed and Masses canceled in the midst of a global pandemic, community...
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The acquittal of Cardinal George Pell
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Faggioli, Massimo
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COLUMN MASSIMO FAGGIOLI Remaining Unsettled The acquittal of Cardinal George Pell doesn’t bring an end to the ‘Pell matter.’ In setting aside the guilty verdict against Cardinal George Pell...
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Letter from Australia
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Hammer, Viva
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SHORT TAKES VIVA HAMMER Alone, Together Letter from Australia Forewarning of the coronavirus pandemic came to my family with a package dropped at our door by a neighbor. Such packages are...
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Letter from New York City
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McClay, B. D.
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SHORT TAKES B. D. MCCLAY Distance, Not Desertion Letter from New York City According to New York by the Numbers, as of March 16, there were almost 5,500 people in Rikers. Of these,...
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Letter from the United Kingdom
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Lobo, Nicole-Ann
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SHORT TAKES NICOLE-ANN LOBO Precarity Made Plain Letter from the United Kingdom In mid-March, before the University of Cambridge shut its doors, I stockpiled four boxes of library books in...
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Letter from a retirement home
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Imbelli, Robert P.
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SHORT TAKES ROBERT P. IMBELLI Privileged & Vulnerable Letter from a priests’ retirement home The first sign appeared on the door of the priests’ retirement residence where I live. It...
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U.S. sanctions in Cuba
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guez, Raúl RodrÃguez RodrÃ
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SHORT TAKES RAÚL RODRÍGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ Sanctioned Cruelty Trump-administration policies are meant to punish the people of Cuba. For six decades, American foreign policy toward Cuba has...
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[You â€" Ferns]
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Martone, John
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POETRY [YOU — FERNS] John Martone You—ferns under the window ferns under the pine, I planted the pines, then you, and put in a window, my great work of silence and shade. And now you don’t...
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Interview: Pope Francis
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Ivereigh, Austen
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INTERVIEW An interview with Pope Francis ‘ A Time of Great Uncertainty’ Austen Ivereigh Toward the end of March I suggested to Pope Francis that this might be a good moment to address the...
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Blaise Pascal & the magisterium
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Griffiths, Paul J.
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ARTICLE Under Pressure Paul J. Griffiths The weight of the magisterium lay heavy on Blaise Pascal. Instead of crushing him, it clarified his thinking— and ours. “Magisterium” is a Latin word...
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Each Week
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Miller, Michael
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POETRY EACH WEEK Michael Miller Bedridden at ninety-five, Her long white hair Always combed, She drifts in, she drifts out Of that place No one can reach. She recognizes the flowers He...
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John Cort’s Christian socialism
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Dorrien, Gary
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ARTICLE From Catholic Worker to DSA Gary Dorrien John Cort’s long road to socialism CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM An Informal History john c. cort Orbis Books 440 pp. | $45 John C. Cort was a...
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The poetry of Lawrence Joseph
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Domestico, Anthony
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ARTICLE ‘So Many Selves’ Anthony Domestico A CERTAIN CLARITY Selected Poems lawrence joseph Farrar, Straus and Giroux $28 | 208 pp. A poet of unlikely combinations …So many selves— the...
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Once Again
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Joseph, Lawrence
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POETRY ONCE AGAIN Lawrence Joseph The esplanade. High summer. The sea is beyond the sunset’s light— the shapes amassed, the sky a current carrying us along, heavy with that green and that...
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Dorothy Day
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Baxter, Michael J.
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BOOKS Still a Sign of Contradiction MICHAEL J. BAXTER DOROTHY DAY Dissenting Voice of the American Century john loughery & blythe randolph Simon and Schuster $30 | 448 pp For the first...
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Cleanness
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Farrell, Frank B.
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BOOKS Apollo’s Not Enough FRANK B. FARRELL CLEANNESS garth greenwell Farrar, Straus and Giroux $26 | 240 pp. Garth Greenwell’s second book of fiction consists of nine closely linked stories...
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In the Shadow of Justice
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Barndt, Susan McWilliams
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BOOKS The God Trick SUSAN MCWILLIAMS BARNDT IN THE SHADOW OF JUSTICE Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy katrina forrester Princeton University Press $35 | 432...
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Booknotes
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Domestico, Anthony
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BOOKS Booknotes Anthony Domestico LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD paul lisicky Graywolf, $16 240 pp. “Do not be afraid,” Jesus says at the empty tomb. He said it before, at the...
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Living in isolation
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Radcliffe, Timothy
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LAST WORD Living in Isolation TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE A few weeks ago, waiting to go through security in Tel Aviv airport, I watched the maneuverings of the young man before me in the queue. As we...
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