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 Vol. 147 Issue 006 (June 1 2020)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS A correction, the acquittal of Cardinal Pell & more A GENEROUS ARTICLE I have just read Gary Dorrien’s generous article about my father, John Cort, and his book Christian Socialism...
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William Barr, unbound
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William Barr, Unbound In a recent New Yorker profile of Attorney General William Barr, we learn that his fealty to the Republican Party took hold early. In the first grade, while a student at...
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COVID-19 & climate change
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Preziosi, Dominic
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COMMENT Another Plague “Imagine a swarm of locusts the size of Manhattan,” says Keith Cressman, the UN’s senior locust-forecasting officer. “In one day that swarm could eat the same...
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Tara Reade & #MeToo
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Munch, Regina
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Tara Reade & #MeToo Tara Reade’s allegation that Joseph Biden sexually assaulted her when she was a Senate aide in 1993 is the gravest, but not the first, accusation of improper behavior toward...
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Reopening churches
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Ferrone, Rita
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COLUMN RITA FERRONE A Sign of Trouble The bishops’ plan to reopen churches and celebrate Mass is misguided. Their biggest problem? Ignoring the shape of the liturgy. If your church is...
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A gay priest’s vocation
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Alison, James
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SHORT TAKES JAMES ALISON Facing Down the Wolf A gay priest’s vocation I have been asked to reflect on what it means to be an openly gay priest. To give my testimony, as it...
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‘The 1619 Project’
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Bacevich, Andrew
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SHORT TAKES ANDREW BACEVICH Reframing American History A lesson from ‘The 1619 Project’ When did the story of America begin? What does that story signify? These old questions are today...
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“Aftermathsâ€
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Cooley, Peter
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POETRY AFTERMATHS Peter Cooley After last night’s rain, the world begun again— you know what I mean, you have felt it often— I go to the window. For a moment the world only my backyard, such...
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COVID-19 in Mexico City
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Sorrentino, Joseph
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SHORT TAKES JOSEPH SORRENTINO ‘San Gregorio Will Protect Us’ How the pandemic is affecting a pueblo in Mexico City Inocencia sells donuts in San Gregorio Atlapulco’s market. She...
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What are deacons for?
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Ditewig, Christopher Ruddy, Thomas Baker, William T.
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ARTICLE What Are Deacons For? An exchange Christopher Ruddy Pope Francis can turn a phrase. Speaking recently to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life, he said, “Move deacons...
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Theology in a neoliberal age
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Lakeland, Paul
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ARTICLE Spiritual Resistance Paul Lakeland Theology in the age of neoliberalism The many current crises in our world all have something in common. Whether they are humanitarian or economic,...
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Martin Buber’s life of dialogue
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Jordan, Patrick
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ARTICLE A Life of Dialogue Patrick Jordan Martin Buber’s path to a believing humanism MARTIN BUBER A Life of Faith and Dissent paul mendes-flohr Yale University Press $26 | 440 pp. “I am...
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Jonathan Stevenson
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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INTERVIEW An interview with Jonathan Stevenson The Foreign Policy Process Is ‘Dysfunctional’ Rand Richards Cooper Jonathan Stevenson is a senior fellow at the International Institute for...
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Dorothea Lange’s humble gaze
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Oleynick, Griffin
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ARTS GRIFFIN OLEYNICK A Humble Gaze ‘Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures’ To photograph him, Dorothea Lange must have had to get more than just her hands dirty. Dirt’s the first thing you...
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The Thirty-Year Genocide
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Reynolds, Gabriel Said
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BOOKS What Turkey Did to Its Christians GABRIEL SAID REYNOLDS THE THIRTYYEAR GENOCIDE Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924 benny morris and dror ze’evi Harvard...
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Books In Brief
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BOOKS IN BRIEF RESISTING THROWAWAY CULTURE How a Consistent Life Ethic Can Unite a Fractured People charles c. camosy New City Press $19.95 | 374 pp. “Political culture in the United...
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Places I’ve Taken My Body
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Lucky, Katherine
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BOOKS Wonderfully Made KATHERINE LUCKY PLACES I’VE TAKEN MY BODY Essays molly mccully brown Persea Books $24.95 | 224 pp. Born three months early with cerebral palsy, the poet Molly...
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From the Underground Church to Freedom
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Ramos, Santiago
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BOOKS Conversion & Revolution SANTIAGO RAMOS FROM THE UNDERGROUND CHURCH TO FREEDOM tomáš halík translated by gerald turner University of Notre Dame Press $35 | 352 pp. The Velvet...
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Unbelievers
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Bradatan, Costica
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A Soft Spot for Atheism COSTICA BRADATAN UNBELIEVERS An Emotional History of Doubt alec ryrie Harvard University Press $27.95 | 272 pp. Atheism is too serious a business to be left to...
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Zed
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Sayers, Valerie
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BOOKS A Bugged Life VALERIE SAYERS ZED Joanna Kavenna Doubleday $27.95 | 352 pp. At the opening of Joanna Kavenna’s delightfully disturbing fifth novel, Zed, a BeetleInsight alarm...
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“The Proof Clothâ€
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Klug, Nate
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POETRY THE PROOF CLOTH Nate Klug What she needed most she couldn’t stomach much of— by month four, each dish towel and napkin in the house, even newly washed, smelled of the milk she’d gum...
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Religion Booknotes
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Johnson, Luke Timothy
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BOOKS Religion Booknotes Luke Timothy Johnson THE TALMUD: A BIOGRAPHY barry scott wimpfheimer Princeton University Press, $26.95, 320 pp. F ar more than a mere book, the Babylonian Talmud...
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“Sit Tibi Terra Levisâ€
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Warren, Deborah
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POETRY SIT TIBI TERRA LEVIS on a gravestone Deborah Warren The earth is all too heavy, spaded black and new, but let it note your heavy sleep and lightly lie on you. DEBORAH WARREN’s...
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The ‘incomparable’ Mary Ward
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Ryan, Jerry
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LAST WORD ‘An Incomparable Woman’ JERRY RYAN In the Papal Bull of 1631, Pastoralis romani pontifices, Urban VIII declared that In order to contain such great audacity with more strictness and...
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Closing Shot
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Steiner, Andrew
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TAILOR SHOP MAKING MASKS FOR THE PANDEMIC Andrew Steiner, 2020 My intention as a photographer is to connect the viewer with people and places they may not know. The series of photographs this...
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