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 Vol. 150 Issue 002 (February 1 2023)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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Talking about abuse and abusers; Dorothy Day chooses her own way LISTENING TO THE CHILD WITHIN Bernard G. Prusak’s article “Who Knew?” (October 2022) is music to my ears and my soul. As a...
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The Debt Standoff
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FROM THE EDITORS The Debt Standoff To understand the real priorities of today’s Republican Party, one should skip past the campaign rhetoric of last year’s midterm elections—all the...
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The right to repair
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Simon, Isabella
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Another Nigerian Martyr In the early morning hours of Sunday, January 15, a group of armed bandits forced their way into the parish rectory of SS. Peter and Paul Parish in the...
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The dangerous game
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Preziosi, Dominic
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The Dangerous Game Football fans of a certain age may remember Charles White, who died in January at the age of sixty-four from esophageal cancer. White was a Heisman Trophy...
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Responding to new AI
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Stern, Alexander
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SHORT TAKES ALEXANDER STERN Escaping the Algorithms The question concerning AI In recent months, artificial intelligence developers have released tools to the general public that have...
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Benedict the innovator
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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SHORT TAKES MOLLIE WILSON O’REILLY Benedict the Innovator Farewell to the pope who made us imagine a new way My oldest child was a baby when Pope Benedict XVI stepped down. He’s in middle...
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The 'desaparecidos' in Mexico
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Sorrentino, Joseph
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SHORT TAKES JOSEPH SORRENTINO ‘The Whole Country is
a Grave’ Searching for Mexico’s
‘desaparecidos’ They’re called los desaparecidos: the disappeared. People who left home one day and never...
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Benedict's theological legacy
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Ruddy, Christopher
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ARTICLE Beyond the Caricatures Christopher Ruddy Benedict’s theological legacy Pope Benedict XVI is destined, for the time being, to be overshadowed by both his predecessor and his...
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The limits of 'longtermism'
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Sullivan, Meghan
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ARTICLE The Limits of ‘Longtermism’ Meghan Sullivan What some champions of ‘effective altruism’ get wrong about our relationship to future generations In November 2022, the Powerball lottery...
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How to think about Albert Schweitzer
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Smiley, Xan
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ARTICLE Ahead of His Time, Behind Ours Xan Smiley Can we still admire Albert Schweitzer? It was partly Albert Schweitzer’s looks that caught the world’s imagination: the bristling walrus...
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The blood libel
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Englund, Steven
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ARTICLE The Blood Libel Steven Englund How do we understand ‘ritual murder’? Nothing in the long and tragic history of Catholic anti-Jewish action rivals the blood libel for shock, horror,...
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Two poems by David Lehman
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POETRY Two Poems
by David Lehman CONVENTIONAL WISDOM Conventional Wisdom is a great name for a nation-wide magazine as Newsweek proved in its ad campaign, circa 1991, which claimed...
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Bishop Mark J. Seitz
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Gehring, John
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INTERVIEW ‘At the Crossroads of Migration’ An interview with
Bishop Mark J. Seitz John Gehring Bishop Mark J. Seitz leads the Diocese of El Paso, Texas, on the U.S.–Mexico border. The...
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'Edward Hopper's New York'
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Rubsam, Robert
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ARTS ROBERT RUBSAM Alone in
the City ‘Edward Hopper’s New York’
at the Whitney Museum I like walking the streets of New York. Sometimes I’ll head up through Greenpoint to the Newtown Creek,...
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'White Noise'
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Stern, Alexander
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FILM ALEXANDER STERN Trapped in the Aura ‘White Noise’ Professor Jack Gladney, the narrator of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, White Noise, yearns for stasis. “Let’s enjoy these aimless days while...
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Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère
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Domestico, Anthony
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BOOKS Continuing
Not to Die ANTHONY DOMESTICO “Thus inevitably does the universe wear our own color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself.” So writes Ralph Waldo...
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Pope Francis and the Transformation of Health Care Ethics by Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler
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PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
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BOOKS All a Matter of Perspective?
BERNARD G. PRUSAK Catholic health care in the United States finds itself at a startling point of convergence with non-Catholic health care. On the...
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Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman
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Moses, Paul
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BOOKS All Mirrors PAUL MOSES As a newspaper reporter in 1980s New York, I did my best to avoid writing about Donald Trump—or any other celebrities. In practical terms, that meant staying...
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Stealing My Religion by Liz Bucar
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Lucky, Katherine
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BOOKS Seekers, or Thieves? KATHERINE LUCKY When I first moved to New York for graduate school, I started doing yoga: an unoriginal choice for a young white woman, but my choice nevertheless....
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'The Gardens of the Villa D'Este'
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D'Este', 'The Gardens of the Villa
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POETRY THE GARDENS OF THE VILLA D’ESTE —in memory of Anthony Hecht William Virgil Davis If style can teach us how to know the world, then this is surely it—in...
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'The Gardens of the Villa D'Este'
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McGowan, Jo
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CRITIC AT LARGE JO MCGOWAN When Literature Stood
on Its Own The letters of John Steinbeck My first introduction to literary letters was Flannery O’Connor’s The Habit of Being. I had never...
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Revisiting Cardinal Spellman
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Baumann, Paul
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Master Builders PAUL BAUMANN I recently spent too many hours plowing through John Cooney’s four-hundred-page 1984 biography, The American Pope: The Life and Times of Francis Cardinal...
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'Letter to the Woman Taken in Adultery'
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Nolen, Caleb
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POETRY LETTER TO THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY Caleb Nolen Confession wasn’t what I imagined: I didn’t kneel
before the shadowed priest. We met behind the sanctuary in the room where they...
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