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 Vol. 149 Issue 004 (April 1 2022)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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communal, multi-dimensional, and with a liturgical component. Since the Order of Penitents seems to be as old as the Order of Catechumens, this movement was drawing upon our oldest roots without...
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From the Editors
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FROM THE EDITORS Stopping Putin In the January issue, before Russia invaded Ukraine, we noted in this space that Vladimir Putin “is an autocrat and a liar.” Since then we’ve been reminded...
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Covid funding
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Oleynick, Griffin
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‘Texas Justice’ Melissa Lucio is scheduled to be executed on April 27, 2022. She is the first Latina woman to face the death penalty in Texas, but one of many people on death...
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KJB & the court
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Preziosi, Dominic
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KJB & the Court The final report from the Presidential Commission of the Supreme Court of the United States arrived with little fanfare in December 2021. It came several...
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Never again, again
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Reynolds, Susan Bigelow
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SUSAN BIGELOW REYNOLDS Never Again, Again Calls for world peace no longer interest us. They should. On the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi in 1965, in the middle of a historic visit to New...
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Instituting women in ministries
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Ferrone, Rita
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RITA FERRONE A Wonderful Complexity What does instituting women in ministries really mean? On the Sunday of the Word of God this year, Pope Francis solemnly instituted lectors...
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"D., Gardening"
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Wiman, Christian
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POETRY D., GARDENING Christian Wiman One form of matter completed by grief. One psalm so utter its form is life. One fire further than the one in which we’ve burned. One...
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Letter from France
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Stetler, Harrison
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HARRISON STETLER Catholics for Zemmour Letter from France This April’s presidential election in France was set to be a civilizational battle, a do-or-die, last-quarter fight for national...
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The war in Ukraine
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Kosicki, John Connelly, James J. Sheehan, Piotr H.; Bacevich, Andrew
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ARTICLE ARTICLE The War in Ukraine John Connelly
James J. Sheehan
Piotr H. Kosicki
Andrew Bacevich What makes Ukraine different John Connelly From the start of the...
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The fight for Black Catholic education
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Williams, Shannen Dee
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‘No Schools,
No Churches!’ Shannen Dee Williams Black sisters and the fight for Black Catholic education On Monday, April 5, 1971, representatives of Baltimore’s Black Catholic Lay Caucus...
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Shirley Hazzard's aesthetic sensibility
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Griffiths, Paul J.
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The Exquisitist Paul J. Griffiths Shirley Hazzard’s stories show all that
aesthetic sensibility can do—and all it can’t. Shirley Hazzard’s writing has been for me a constant source of...
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"Wachapreague"
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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Wachapreague Rand Richards Cooper Part II The room next to Langen’s had been his brother-in-law’s man-cave. Langen had helped Liddie clean it out, leaving only books, framed nature photos Jason...
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Escaping the Straitjacket
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Steinfels, Peter
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Escaping the Straitjacket PETER STEINFELS Nouvelle théologie is not exactly a household term, except perhaps in some Commonweal-reading households. A report on “new theological currents”...
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Books in Brief
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BOOKS IN BRIEF Amanda Oliver’s new book, Overdue, is a provocative crossover between a memoir and a research project, recounting Oliver’s seven years working as a librarian...
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Heads & Tales
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Munch, Regina
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Heads & Tales REGINA MUNCH Returning to the United States from Beirut in 1837, Commodore Jesse D. Elliott brought with him some remarkable souvenirs: two marble sarcophagi. Elliott claimed...
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The Influence of Anxiety
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Petty, Adam Fleming
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The Influence of Anxiety ADAM FLEMING PETTY Chile, like Ireland, is a sparsely populated, geographically isolated country that produces a staggering number of poets. Two Chileans have won...
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What Belongs to the Living
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Gee, Melody S.
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What Belongs to the Living MELODY S. GEE In each of the eight stories in Sindya Bhanoo’s Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, someone is missing—a child, a parent, a sibling, a beloved elder, a family...
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Ordinary Wonders
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Lucky, Katherine
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Ordinary Wonders KATHERINE LUCKY An extraordinary life deserves a memoir. Perhaps the author was raised in dire poverty or in a cult. Perhaps they experienced great success as an athlete,...
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"Tiramisu"
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Rybicki, Stephen
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TIRAMISU (for Walt Whitman) Stephen Rybicki Snow falling: I brought some home to her Late yesterday (Figment of my imagination) she had a taste Which I was asked to satiate...
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"Vegetables"
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Worozbyt, Theodore
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VEGETABLES Theodore Worozbyt Picking crookneck squash I am sure no mistake is beyond me. I am making history in the green exacting plenitude of sphagnum and Voltaire. I pick things...
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Ministers in crisis
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Kane, Lauren
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LAUREN KANE Pressure at the Seam Stories of ministers in crisis It is sometimes argued that every story has already been told, that all the narratives can be reduced to something we’ve heard...
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"Civilize the Sacrifice"
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Hren, Joshua
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CIVILIZE THE SACRIFICE Joshua Hren It seemed to me only proper that words
Should be withheld from vegetables and birds.
—“Their Lonely Betters,” W. H. Auden She is at home with a hard...
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Christians first
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Frost, Carrie Frederick
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Christians First CARRIE FREDERICK FROST My paternal grandmother immigrated as a girl with her parents from western Ukraine in 1914. Her husband and family went to great lengths to...
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