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 Vol. 148 Issue 001 (January 1 2021)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Integralists & Vatican II ABSURD ACCUSATIONS In the review that you recently published of our book, Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy ("The New Integralists,” November),...
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Only a down payment
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FROM THE EDITORS Only a Down Payment The best that can be said of the pandemic relief bill hammered out before Christmas is that it’s better than nothing. Indeed, “nothing” seemed like a real...
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Public health v. culture war
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Sitman, Matthew
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COMMENT A New Cardinal in D.C. On November 28, Archbishop of Washington Wilton Gregory became the first African-American cardinal in a socially distanced ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome....
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Lame-duck executions
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Munch, Regina
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Lame-Duck Executions In July, the Trump administration ordered the execution of Daniel Lewis Lee. It was the first time a federal prisoner had been put to death since 2003. As of this writing,...
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Liturgical inculturation
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Ferrone, Rita
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COLUMN RITA FERRONE 'Our Eucharist Is a Feast' Francis has become a serious advocate for liturgical inculturation. One of the final recommendations from the October 2019 Synod on the Amazon was...
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France's war on terror
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Stangler, Cole
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SHORT TAKES COLE STANGLER France's War on Terror Years of Islamist attacks show the problem is real— but the Macron government continues to play politics with its response. As the threat of...
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Why the people should choose their bishops
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Cafardi, Nicholas P.
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SHORT TAKES NICHOLAS P. CAFARDI An Ambrose of Our Own The people should choose their bishops, just like they used to. There are a number of conclusions one could draw from reading the Vatican...
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How EWTN misreported the Viganò letter
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Moses, Paul
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SHORT TAKES PAUL MOSES The One Missing Fact How EWTN misreported the Vigano letter EWTN’s website declares that “Our mission is simple. We aim to bring you reliable, accurate, trustworthy news,...
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"Ars Poetica"
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Menon, Uma
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POETRY ARS POETICA Uma Menon When I am alone, I am never truly alone. There are many things I must become to give up my memory to a page. I begin as a hound, stealthy and hunkering. I chase a...
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The Bundist rabbi
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Quigley, Fran
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Rabbi Fran Quigley The Bundist Michael Feinberg’s ministry is activism. Michael Feinberg never felt more like a Bundist rabbi than when he was marching down the streets of Manhattan toward City...
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A Christian in the office of constitutional judge
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Böckenförde, Ernst-Wolfgang
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ARTICLE A Christian in the Office of Constitutional Judge Ernst-Wolfgang Bockenforde Is it possible for a Catholic jurist to work within the framework of a liberal democracy? Three years ago, I...
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Without God or reason
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Jensen, Morten Høi
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ARTICLE Without God or Reason Morten Hoi Jensen Albert Camus resolved to face the human condition with total clarity. I first read Albert Camus when I was seventeen. I borrowed my father’s...
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Rosanna Warren
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Domestico, Anthony
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INTERVIEW A conversation with Rosanna Warren Searching for the Sacred Anthony Domestico Max Jacob was born in 1876 to a business-owning Jewish family in Quimper, an administrative center of...
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'Les Rose'
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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SCREEN RAND RICHARDS COOPER Hurricane Quebecois 'Les Rose' Fifty years ago, Quebec was in the throes of a secessionist movement, its French-speaking majority venting long-accumulated resentment...
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Gerhard Richter's Birkenau paintings
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Rubsam, Robert
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ARTS ROBERT RUBSAM What Screens Can't Show Gerhard Richter's Birkenau paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art In the summer of 1944, a camera was smuggled out of Auschwitz. Inside it was a...
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"Astronomy"
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Cadnum, Michael
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POETRY astronomy For Katha Pollitt Michael Cadnum You knew it would capture you that evening you caught the flash you recognized only after a heartbeat, a meteorite over the rooflines of yet...
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Intimations
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Ramos, Santiago
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BOOKS Experiments in Living SANTIAGO RAMOS INTIMATIONS Six Essays zadie smith Penguin Books $10.95 | 112 pp. Zadie Smith introduces her 2018 essay collection, Feel Free, with this remarkable...
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"Brooklyn Radiator"
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Linstrom, John
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POETRY BROOKLYN RADIATOR John Linstrom Another Wednesday, another chill deep enough the oven’s on and open. It’s two days till we touch, bump our butts maneuvering the boxlike...
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Gambling with Armageddon
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Bacevich, Andrew
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BOOKS The Patriarchy Gets Lucky ANDREW BACEVICH GAMBLING WITH ARMAGEDDON Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis martin j. sherwin Alfred A. Knopf $35 | 624 pp. In this...
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Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Pally, Marcia
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BOOKS KARL BARTH AND DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Theologians for a Post-Christian World wolf krotke Translated by John P. Burgess Baker Academic $48 | 272 pp. Theological Resistance MARCIA...
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The Unreality of Memory
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Lucky, Katherine
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BOOKS Apocalypse Now KATHERINE LUCKY THE UNREALITY OF MEMORY And Other Essays elisa gabbert FSG Originals $16 | 272 pp. An apocalypse is supposed to be something sudden. Devastating storms...
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Long Live Latin
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McNamara, Charles
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BOOKS Cicero Will Outlive Your Tweets CHARLES MCNAMARA In the first pages of Oxford professor Nicola Gardini’s unapologetic paean to Latin literary craft, he defends the ancient Roman tongue...
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Payback
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Deignan, Tom
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BOOKS Fueled by Contempt TOM DEIGNAN PAYBACK A Novel mary Gordon Pantheon $27.95 | 352 pp. TOM DEIGNAN contributes regularly to Commonweal, and has written about books for the New York Times,...
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Religion Booknotes
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Johnson, Luke Timothy
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Religion Booknotes Luke Timothy Johnson THE BOOK OF REVELATION A Biography timothy beal Princeton University Press $26.95 | 288 pp. I suspect that no great argument was needed to make the Book...
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Pandemic parenting
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Nixon, Burke
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LAST WORD Pandemic Parenting BURKE NIXON Not long ago, a friend of mine who walks his dog down our street almost every evening knocked on our door. “You know your car doors are open?” he asked....
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Closing Shot
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Monastra, Carolyn
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CLOSING SHOT STAIRS AND BURIAL VAULT DISPLACED BY HURRICANE ISAAC FLOODWATERS Braithwaite, Louisiana, 2012 Hurricane Isaac spun into New Orleans seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina hit...
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"Lower Mathematics"
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Brackett, Judy
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POETRY LOWER MATHEMATICS Judy Brackett The little boy shouts “To infinity and beyond!” and asks “Where the heck is infinity?” and “Is a googol bigger than a gazillion?” and “How can there be a...
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