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 Vol. 150 Issue 003 (March 1 2023)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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FOUNDED IN 1924 Letters: The Respect for Marriage Act AMERICAN OPINION IS NOT BINARY Professor Douglas Laycock, in his article “The Only Way Forward” (January), discusses religious liberty and...
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Israel in crisis
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FROM THE EDITORS Israeli Democracy on the Brink Another week, another raid by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the West Bank. The most recent took place in late February in the city of Nablus...
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Santiago Ramos
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Simon, Isabella
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After the Earthquakes It was 4:15 on a Monday morning when the ground started moving, and “the [bell] tower was shaking, and some pieces fell.” Suddenly awake and in shock, Giacomo Pizzi, an NGO...
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Antitrust legislation
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Stern, Alexander
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is not the first time a rail company has sought to maximize profits at the expense of workers and communities. In the name of greater efficiency, railroads have in recent years slashed staff and...
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Performing the Passion
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Reynolds, Susan Bigelow
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SHORT TAKES SUSAN BIGELOW REYNOLDS Ways of
the Cross What a four-century-old
Passion play reveals about
the meaning of tradition In September 2022, I traveled to Oberammergau, Germany, to...
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Letter from California
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Lucky, Katherine
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SHORT TAKES KATHERINE LUCKY State of Disaster Letter from California At the start of the year, rain finally fell. The colors on the drought map started to fade, from the reds of...
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Diplomacy in Ukraine
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Holtsmark, Gregory M. Reichberg, Stein Tønnesson, Henrik Syse; and Sven G.
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SHORT TAKES Diplomacy in Ukraine An exchange When right does not make might Gregory M. Reichberg, Stein Tønnesson, and Henrik Syse Ukraine is confronted with a stark choice: fight on with...
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Social housing
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Quigley, Fran
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Housing Is a Human Right Fran Quigley The affordability crisis is a result of political choices,
not economic laws. In the Indianapolis eviction court where my law students and I work, we...
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Pope Francis centers migrants
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Ivereigh, Austen
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From Strangers
to Siblings Austen Ivereigh Why Francis has made migrants and refugees the cornerstone of his social teaching Never has a pope focused so consistently on a social issue as...
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‘In the Basilica of San Vitale’
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Piero, W. S. Di
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IN THE BASILICA OF SAN VITALE W. S. Di Piero The old conclude their silent prayers and ease their slow bones from empty pews. We unbelievers take pictures. Different dreamers, aching...
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Renunciation & happiness
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Hitz, Zena
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The Grace of Wholeheartedness Zena Hitz Christian happiness is the fruit of renunciation. In my first year of academic teaching, I decided to enter the Roman Catholic Church. It was a...
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‘Anthracite Revisited’
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Spellman, Wilma
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ANTHRACITE REVISITED Wilma Spellman the unhinged ash fell silently among the clinkers still red-hot glowing gorgeously behind window squares of isinglass embedded in etched...
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Assisted suicide
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Hartin, Cole
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Assisted Suicide
& the Cure of Souls Cole Hartin As ancient patterns of life give way, the task of caring for those whom God loves must adapt. Writing about death is difficult for a priest....
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‘no existe un mundo poshuracán’
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Anreus, Alejandro
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ALEJANDRO ANREUS Beauty & Grief Puerto Rican art at the Whitney Museum Columbus arrived on the island of Boriquén on November 19, 1493. At the time, it boasted a population of some 30,000...
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‘Enter You, Waving’
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Piero, W. S. Di
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ENTER YOU, WAVING W. S. Di Piero There you were, last year, just inside the door, hand raised like a happy Etruscan lord reposing on his limestone tomb. Bunched tweeds, blue work shirt,...
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Stella Maris and The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
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Christman, Reviewed by Phil
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Ghost Guilts PHIL CHRISTMAN I have lately come into possession of a fact that threatens my very sense of things. It is this: Cormac McCarthy is funny. Not just incidentally, not just as a...
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Cult of the Dead by Kyle Smith
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Johnson, Reviewed by Luke Timothy
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Repugnant? LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON The preface to Kyle Smith’s book about the commemoration, celebration, and imitation of those who testified to Christ even at the cost of their lives—the...
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The Book of Revolutions by Edward Feld
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SJ, David Neuhaus
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Ongoing Revelations DAVID NEUHAUS, SJ Edward Feld is a Conservative rabbi, writer, and liturgist who has written on Jewish theology, prayer, and the Hebrew Bible. After publishing a...
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The Waste Land by Matthew Hollis
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Pritchard, William H.
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Pitiless Brilliance WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD When The Waste Land showed up on the college syllabus, I’m sure I wasn’t the only student who approached it with nervous unease. Other poets...
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An unintended icon?
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Milliner, Matthew J.
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MATTHEW J. MILLINER An Unintended Icon? Our Lady of Perpetual Help at Ground Zero The newly completed St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in New York City is more than a simple...
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‘Rhythm Revue’
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Preziosi, Dominic
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Saturday Soul DOMINIC PREZIOSI “Good morning, my soul-licious listeners” is how Felix Hernandez recently greeted his Saturday-morning audience, the many thousands who tune in for his...
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‘Earth’
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Dybeck, Stuart
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EARTH Stuart Dybek Standing at night on the betrayed Earth, it appears the universe is overhead. Idols, broken tablets, sacred books preserve fragments of what was said in...
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