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 Vol. 148 Issue 002 (February 1 2021)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Leading by example LET THE CHILDREN LEAD Rita Ferrone rightly praises liturgical inculturation in her column '"Our Eucharist Is a Feast"' (January). Until a few years ago, this was...
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Convict him
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FROM THE EDITORS Convict Him We Americans tend to think of democracy as our national birthright rather than as a fragile achievement that depends on social conditions subject to decay. We spend a...
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A failed auction
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Simon, Isabella
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COMMENT Wa mock's Way Faith was a defining feature of the Georgia special-election campaign that helped give Democrats control of Congress and the White House for the first time since 2011. The...
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Vaccine delays
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Daniels, Katie
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Vaccine Delays A year after the first cases of COVID-19 appeared in the United States, the gargantuan task of vaccinating 328 million Americans is progressing at anything but warp speed. The...
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Thinking Latinly
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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COLUMN CATHLEEN KAVENY Thinking Latin ly Remembering Reginald Foster Reginald Foster, OCD, the celebrated Latinist who died in December, committed one act of civil disobedience in the course of...
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A people, not an army
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Reynolds, Susan Bigelow
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COLUMN SUSAN BIGELOW REYNOLDS A People, Notan Army What the language of war reveals about our response to the pandemic At dusk on the eve of the presidential inauguration, Joe Biden, Kamala...
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COVID fatigue
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Islam, Ebtesam Attaya
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SHORT TAKES EBTESAM ATTAYA ISLAM COVID Fatigue Life in an intensive-care unit There will be no sit-down rounds before seeing the COVID patients today. As I enter the Medical Intensive Care Unit...
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The internet and national security
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Bacevich, Andrew
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SHORT TAKES ANDREW BACEVICH Enemies Without. Enemy Within? The internet & national security In December 2020, for the first time in U.S. history, the office of the presidency lay vacant....
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“Industryâ€
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Linstrom, John
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POETRY ROOD RIDDLE Pete Green I the East am one arm. I am West the other. My forehead is an unfurled name. I will always be warm with his body I bore like a mother. My roots are the roots of...
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Papal populism
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Ivereigh, Austen
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SHORT TAKES AUSTEN IVEREIGH On Papal Populism Francis reflects on our political moment. When the host of The Late Show asked Joe Biden just before Christmas how the second Catholic president of...
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A dangerous confusion
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Cloutier, David
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ARTICLE A Dangerous Confusion David Cloutier What pro-life critics of the COVID vaccines get wrong On December 14, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a response to a...
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The problem of evil
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Turner, Denys
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ARTICLE All Will Be Well Denys Turner Julian of Norwich, David Hume, and the problem of evil The following essay first appeared on Commonweal’.? website in April 2017, but never in print. The...
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Acting and empathy
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Rollert, John Paul
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Going to Extremes John Paul Rollert What acting taught me about the limits of empathy I had to buy a hatchet. A real one: the kind that you can use to cut a tree down or split open someone’s...
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“Revelation Hymnâ€
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Juster, A. M.
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POETRY REVELATION HYMN A. M. Juster To regather will, I embrace my tin soul with timorous joy. A new heaven and a new earth have eclipsed the old, and the force of fresh grace unsettles the...
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Barry Lopez
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Oleynick, Griffin
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INTERVIEW Servant of Memory An interview with Barry Lopez Griffin Oleynick Opposite page: Barry Lopez Barry Lopez, winner of the National Book Award for Arctic Dreams (1986), a nonfiction...
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“Potato Settingâ€
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Cadnum, Michael
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POETRY POTATO SETTING For Vigdis Storsletten Michael Cadnum A string bag of them gives off the wet smell of earth before anything. The year is infant, and trees stand with their naked...
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A Promised Land
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Baumann, Paul
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BOOKS Looking Down from the High Ground PAUL BAUMANN A PROMISED LAND BARACK OBAMA Crown $45 | 768 pp. As an ardent and occasionally shameless admirer of President Barack Obama, I am chagrined...
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Books in Brief
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BOOKS IN BRIEF EARTH KEEPER Reflections on the American Land N. SCOTT MOMADAY Harper $17.99 | 80 pp. MUHAMMAD RECONSIDERED A Christian Perspective on Islamic Prophecy ANNA BONTA...
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Red Pill
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Petty, Adam Fleming
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BOOKS RED PILL A Novel MARI KUNZRU Knopf $27.95 | 304 pp. The Past Catches up with Postmodernism ADAM FLEMING PETTY Whatever happened to postmodernism? Once, it looked like the future of...
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The Open Heart Club
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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BOOKS THE OPEN HEART CLUB A Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery GABRIEL BROWNSTEIN PublicAffairs $28 |368 pp. 'The Miracle of Everything' RAND RICHARDS COOPER Was Gabriel...
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Regret
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Malesic, Jonathan
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BOOKS Sorry for Your Loss JONATHAN MALESIC REGRET A Theology PAUL J. GRIFFITHS University of Notre Dame Press $30 1152 pp. When the Catholic theologian and Commonweal contributor Paul J....
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Philosopher of the Heart
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Marino, Gordon
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BOOKS The Pascal of the North GORDON MARINO PHILOSOPHER OF THE HEART The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard CLARE CARLISLE Farrar, Straus and Giroux $30 | 368 pp. Seren Kierkegaard...
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“There and Hereâ€
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Power, Marjorie
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POETRY THERE AND HERE Marjorie Power I fall from my own hands. —A. Molotkov I had a father who had no guns. Nor did he use the word guns. Each autumn he’d tell me, Don’t play in the...
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Béisbol and the border
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ndez, Carmen M. Nanko-Ferná
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SPORTS CARMEN M. NANKO-FERNANDEZ Beisbol, Baseball, and 'Bad Hombres' The long relationship between the game and the border Fans of professional baseball in the United States have long been...
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“Ash Wednesdayâ€
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Hickman, Sr. Lou Ella
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POETRY ASH WEDNESDAY Sr. Lou Ella Hickman I have come to light a fire on the earth Luke 12:49 you are dust and to dust you shall return... so why ashes those sooty remains of palm branch...
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One by fire, one by prayer
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Entremont, Nicole d’
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LAST WORD One by Fire, One by Prayer NICOLE D’ENTREMONT We were in the darkened cocoon of a fully booked transpacific flight from Narita, Japan, to Washington D.C. In the aisle seat next to me,...
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