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Vol. 150 Issue 010 (November 11 2023)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Letters
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Robert Bellah’s socialism, the war in Ukraine, and Catholic higher education SERIOUS ANTI-CAPITALISM Thank you for Matthew Rose’s excellent article on Robert Bellah, “Serious Play” (July/August...
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The Israel-Palestine conflict
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FROM THE EDITORS ‘Moral Clarity’? In joint statements about Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel, which left more than 1,400 people dead—including more than a thousand civilians—both U.S....
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The Polish elections
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Munch, Regina
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Reading ‘Laudate Deum’ Pope Francis concludes Laudate Deum, his new apostolic exhortation on the climate crisis, by pointing to carbon emissions in the United States and condemning the...
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Supreme Court ethics reform
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Doyle, Miles
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Supreme Chutzpah On May 4, 1969, Supreme Court justice Abe Fortas resigned following revelations that he had accepted $20,000 in payment from a foundation controlled by Louis E. Wolfson, a friend...
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A renewed National Labor Relations Board
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Mazewski, Matt
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MATT MAZEWSKI A Star Recruit Under Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB is changing how labor law is enforced. When evaluating the job performance of government officials, I like to apply one of the few...
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Responding to migrants in New York City
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Moses, Paul
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PAUL MOSES ‘When an Alien Resides with You’ Responding to the migrant influx in New York City New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams is fond of speaking about how his religious faith guides him. “I...
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A dispatch from the Synod
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Ivereigh, Austen
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AUSTEN IVEREIGH It Works A report from the Synod In the early decades of the twenty-first century, historians will say, the Catholic Church sought a new way of operating that would allow it to...
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The Real Presence in the Eucharist
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Cavadini, John
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JOHN CAVADINI The Eucharist & the Poor The real meaning of the Real Presence As many readers will know, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is leading a three-year National...
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A symposium on posthumanism
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Gertz, Gilbert Meilaender, John F. Haught, Nolen; Pasquale, Frank
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Better Off Without Us? A symposium Gilbert Meilaender John F. Haught Nolen Gertz Frank Pasquale Every day comes more news of the devastating consequences of climate change: floods and...
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Fr. Luigi Portarulo
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Stapinski, Helene
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From Bernalda to Bleecker St. Helene Stapinski A young Italian priest makes his way in New York City. Fr. Luigi Portarulo steps through the tall red doors of La Scuola D’Italia into a maelstrom...
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'Fallen Leaves'
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Leaves', 'Fallen
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ALEXANDER STERN Getting Through Life Aki Kaurismäki’s ‘Fallen Leaves’ Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki was once asked why there is so little camera movement in his films. “That’s a nuisance when...
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'Adam's Lament'
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Stein, Gary
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ADAM’S LAMENT Gary Stein Like many fathers God had no patience for infants. So he made us older but naïve. We never needed to crawl, bruise bone on stone or feel the sting of his rod. We...
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The art of Julian Montague
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Malesic, Jonathan
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JONATHAN MALESIC Cartography of Abandonment The serious subtext of Julian Montague’s ‘cosmic jokes’ Last spring, a shopping cart drifted through my Dallas neighborhood. It was the sort with a...
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'Dead Man Walking' at the Metropolitan Opera
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Oleynick, Griffin
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GRIFFIN OLEYNICK Redemption Songs ‘Dead Man Walking’ at the Metropolitan Opera It’s been thirty years since the publication of Dead Man Walking, Sr. Helen Prejean’s bestselling memoir about her...
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Two poems by David Lehman
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Two Poems by David Lehman CHAMPION The crowd loves the defeated champion. Before the champion lost, he never had their love. It took defeat to bring them to their feet and cheer for the...
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Homelands by Timothy Garton Ash
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Donahue, William Collins
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‘Now Comes the Reckoning’ WILLIAM COLLINS DONAHUE It is a window and a mirror. Through it, we observe the growth of the European Union from its humble beginnings in 1952 as the six-member...
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The 272 by Rachel L. Swarns
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Chatelain, Marcia
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Sold by the Jesuits BY MARCIA CHATELAIN In the early spring of 1860, E. M. Dudley of Livingston County, Kentucky, ran an ad in the local newspaper offering a “Two Hundred Dollars Reward” for the...
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Self-Made by Tara Isabella Burton
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East, Brad
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The Brand Called You BRAD EAST I am what I want, and I have the power within myself to make myself what I want to be, if only I find the will to activate this inner potential—or rather, to...
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Hell to Pay by Michael Lind
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McCartin, Joseph A.
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The Scourge of Wage Suppression JOSEPH A. MCCARTIN In his latest book, Hell to Pay, the prolific public intellectual Michael Lind offers a compelling analysis of an urgent problem: too many...
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The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone
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Hijkoop, Marcus
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Holding His Pose MARCUS HIJKOOP The Italian novelist Domenico Starnone has long been rumored to be the writer behind the works of the best-selling, pseudonymous author Elena Ferrante. In 2005,...
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BOOKS IN BRIEF
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BOOKS IN BRIEF Governments care about religion again—at least, they see religious leaders and movements as important to collaborate with, manage, shut down, or co-opt. Michael D. Driessen’s The...
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The canticle of St. Francis
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Brady, Kathleen
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Jongleurs of God KATHLEEN BRADY Modern technology seldom comes to mind in connection with Francis of Assisi, yet there is one device that he would have prized. A smartphone with a music app...
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'Pebble'
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Swann, Brian
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PEBBLE Brian Swann Under clouds cold as blue clay, light seeps into milkweed so it speaks monarchs, and the wind sings stones with voices from where there are none, from even before there...
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