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 Vol. 149 Issue 011 (December 1 2022)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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American intervention in Ukraine and theology in hip-hop A BRIGHT CANDLE Paul J. Griffiths’s “A dissent” (September) seems more like an assent—to the end of Ukraine as a sovereign nation of...
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From the Editors
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FROM THE EDITORS Inflation & Profits Just two days after the midterm elections, in which they fared much better than anticipated, the Democrats received another welcome surprise. The latest...
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Peace in Tigray?
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Munch, Regina
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The COP27 Climate Conference Like previous climate conferences, November’s COP27 has inspired both enthusiasm and frustration. For two weeks every year, the United Nations Framework Convention on...
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Qatar’s World Cup
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Doyle, Miles
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Qatar & the World Cup In 2010, when Qatar won the rights to host this year’s World Cup, Sepp Blatter, then president of football’s governing body (FIFA), proudly...
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The legacy of Vatican II
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Ferrone, Rita
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SHORT TAKES RITA FERRONE From Lived History to Living Legacy Vatican II at sixty Speaking at Santa Clara University in 2015, historian John W. O’Malley, SJ, author of the book What Happened...
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Women in the synod
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Reynolds, Susan Bigelow
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SHORT TAKES SUSAN BIGELOW REYNOLDS Are We Protagonists Yet? Examining the place of women in the synod’s working document Whenever I read a Vatican statement on the role of women, I conduct...
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A resurgence of Catholic anti-Semitism
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Moses, Paul
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SHORT TAKES PAUL MOSES Old Anti-Semitism, New Audience Behind Fr. Coughlin,
there was Fr. Fahey. When the rabble-rousing Fr. Charles Coughlin began getting his comeuppance in 1938 for the...
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“New Year’s Eveâ€
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Lehman, David
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POETRY NEW YEAR’S EVE David Lehman Champagne and a ribeye, that’s the ticket, Beethoven’s string quartet in C# minor, and good riddance to another plague year. The mind can provide,...
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The future of the pro-life movement
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Bottum, Joseph
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Life after ‘Dobbs’ Joseph Bottum How the end of ‘Roe’ could improve the abortion debate. Editor’s Note: The September issue of Commonweal featured a symposium titled “Abortion after Dobbs.”...
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Dictatorship in Nicaragua
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Ramos, Santiago
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Another North Korea? Santiago Ramos Ortega tightens his grip on Nicaragua. Every time you open it, the instant messaging service called WhatsApp makes a promise: “Messages and calls are...
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Dante’s poetry of exile
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Turner, Denys
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ARTICLE Dante in Exile Denys Turner Only in the silence of Paradise does poetry come home to its ‘abiding city.’ “Here is no abiding city,” reads the Letter to the Hebrews. In 1302, Dante...
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Alexander Dugin’s fraudulent philosophy
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McManus, Matt
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Just Call It Fascism Matt McManus Alexander Dugin’s fraudulent ‘fourth way’ Much has been written about Alexander Dugin, the Russian firebrand often called “Putin’s Brain” by both his...
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“My Thursday Truthâ€
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Nathanson, Roy
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POETRY MY THURSDAY TRUTH Roy Nathanson My Thursday truth hides in a mist of overtones— I know it’s in there, hair slicked back, hiding the molten core. So I...
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Jean-Luc Marion
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Woodward, Kenneth L.
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INTERVIEW ‘We Are Not
Yet Christians’
An interview with
Jean-Luc Marion Jean-Luc Marion is professor emeritus of philosophy at the Sorbonne and retired professor of Catholic studies, the...
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‘Tár’
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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RAND RICHARDS COOPER Careening Toward Disaster ‘Tár’ Few directors have whetted anticipation more keenly, or for longer, than Todd Field, who burst onto the scene in 2001 with In the...
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“Snow Globeâ€
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Skillman, Judith
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POETRY SNOW GLOBE Judith Skillman How many snow flakes fall on this house with the red roof. A deer comes to graze— washed in umber, white-tailed, it nuzzles drift-fixed wands of...
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The Missing Jew: Poems 1976â€"2022
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Kamenetz, Rodger
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The Mystic Adventures of Rodger Kamenetz JASON BERRY The Jews’ history was huge and murky no room for it anywhere in Europe. If only the Jews could inherit Texas it might be big enough...
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Rethinking Sex by Christine Emba
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Walden, Daniel
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Too Casual?
DANIEL WALDEN We have seen, as of late, a surfeit of books and articles about the reconfiguration, the reimagining, the regrounding of sex. The philosopher Amia Srinivasan...
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We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
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Lama, Tsering Yangzom
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Distance & Destiny MELODY S. GEE Pilgrimage through prostration is the ancient Tibetan practice of traveling the earth one body-length at a time. Author Tsering Yangzom Lama...
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Christmas Critics
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Christmas Critics VALERIE SAYERS I’ve received many delightful doorstops at Christmas—novels and memoirs mostly—but I’d also like to make the case for a slender volume of fiction as...
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Santa Claus and Science
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Chesterton, G. K.
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Santa Claus and Science G. K. CHESTERTON This article first appeared in the December 20, 1935 issue
of Commonweal. I wish the subject I discuss here in a short article could be discussed...
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“Idiomâ€
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Warren, Deborah
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POETRY IDIOM Deborah Warren Giunse per Maria il tempo di partorire; ed essa diede alla luce un figlio . . . (Luke 2: 6–7) Mary didn’t merely bring Him forth in winter words and...
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