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Vol. 150 Issue 005 (May 1 2023)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Letters
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Compassion in death, comfort in music MAID IS A MERCY Thanks to Associate Rector Cole Hartin (“Assisted Suicide & the Cure of Souls,” March) for raising an urgent question: whether and how...
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Fox and the Dominion Lawsuit
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FROM THE EDITORS Outfoxed The $787.5 million that Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems is the largest publicly known defamation settlement by an American media company. Many who’d...
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A Nicaraguan Bishop in Prison
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Ramos, Santiago
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Indefensible “Self Defense” A sixteen-year-old boy in Kansas City was shot after he rang the wrong doorbell. A twenty-year-old woman in upstate New York was fatally shot after she and her...
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Colorado River Negotiations
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Simon, Isabella
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Running Dry Deadline after deadline has passed, but the seven states that draw their water from the Colorado River system have yet to agree on the cuts required to save the...
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Priests and the Right to Privacy
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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SHORT TAKES CATHLEEN KAVENY Chasing the Unchaste Do priests have a right
to privacy? In March 2023, the Washington Post detailed how a group of Catholic conservatives spent millions of...
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Famine in Kenya
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Kilby, Karen
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KAREN KILBY Famine and the Living God Letter from Kenya “I believe in the living God.” The bishop of Marsabit repeated this several times during our brief courtesy visit. Most strikingly,...
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The Reputation of John Paul II in Poland
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Kosicki, Piotr H.
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PIOTR H. KOSICKI Poland’s Memory Offensive A campaign to protect the
reputation of John Paul II challenges NATO and silences victims of sex abuse. Apparently, it is in NATO’s interest to...
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Rev. Traci Blackmon
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Dorrien, Gary
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GARY DORRIEN ‘The Gospel is a Social Gospel’ Rev. Traci Blackmon and
prophetic Black faith The idea that churches must be involved in political struggles for justice and peace to be...
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‘Not Good Company’
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Poreba, Elizabeth
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POETRY NOT GOOD COMPANY Elizabeth Poreba Plastics are on my mind, floods. Any pause in the conversation, I come up with some Sorry Business, Aboriginal term for mourning. Doleful,...
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Taking natality seriously
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Banks, Jennifer
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Reckoning With Birth Jennifer Banks What would happen if we took our natality as seriously
as our mortality? Birth is humanity’s greatest under-explored subject. I had that thought over...
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Ukraine and the Ethics of War
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Winright, Tobias; Cavanaugh, William T.
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Ukraine and the Ethics of War
An exchange The Possibility of a Just War Tobias Winright While this year marks the sixtieth anniversary of Pope John XXIII’s encyclical Pacem in terris,...
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‘The Power Hose’
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Piero, W. S. Di
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POETRY THE POWER HOSE W. S. Di Piero They leveled what was left of the funeral pyres, Set apart the cold bones, ashes chilled by cold, And covered over these ashes and bones....
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Glimpses of Ukraine
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Buskey, Megan
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A Singular Country Glimpses of Ukraine MEGAN BUSKEY I first started traveling to Ukraine in the early 2000s. At first, it was mainly because of my heritage: my mother is Ukrainian and I have...
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Gianfranco Rosi
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Oleynick, Griffin
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A Pilgrimage
in Reverse An interview with
Gianfranco Rosi Gianfranco Rosi is one of Italy’s most important living documentary filmmakers. His films include El Sicario, Room 164 (2010), Sacro...
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‘The Fabelmans’ & ‘Aftersun’
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Rubsam, Robert
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ROBERT RUBSAM Frozen Moments ‘The Fabelmans’ & ‘Aftersun’ Two films, two views of filmmaking—and of film’s relationship to memory. Not two philosophies or programs, but two views, arising...
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‘C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction’
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Situ, Xiao
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XIAO SITU Lifelines ‘C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction’ A lifeline is a rope you toss into the water to save someone struggling to stay afloat. Metaphorically, it describes a person or...
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Higher Ed Laid Low
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Brown, Ryan M.
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Higher Ed Laid Low RYAN M. BROWN In After the Ivory Tower Falls, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Philadelphia Inquirer journalist Will Bunch seeks to tell the story of how college promised the...
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Always Something New
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Foley-Keene, Max
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Always Something New MAX FOLEY-KEENE Turn on an NBA playoff game right before tip-off and you’ll see ten men who have no idea what’s about to happen. Their individual activities—their...
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Time After Time
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Lucky, Katherine
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Time After Time KATHERINE LUCKY How long does it take to read a book? It’s a question that can be answered by the clock or calendar, in hours, days, or weeks. But often, our...
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Record of a Friendship
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Nixon, Burke
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Record of a Friendship BURKE NIXON Hua Hsu’s perceptive and unforgettable memoir, Stay True, focuses mostly on his college years—and one particularly meaningful and heartbreaking friendship...
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Preying on Desire
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McManus, Matt
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Preying on Desire MATT MCMANUS The $4.3 billion online-dating industry banks on an addictive combination of anxiety and hope, catering to our fear of being alone and to our very...
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Duke Ellington’s ‘The Majesty of God’
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Futterman, Steve
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STEVE FUTTERMAN Sacred Swing Duke Ellington’s
‘The Majesty of God’
Like that of many monumental artists throughout history, the legacy of Duke Ellington is one of contradiction. As...
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Wiman, Christian
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One Wants a Teller CHRISTIAN WIMAN I am beginning to despair And can see only two choices: Either go crazy or turn holy. —Adélia Prado, “Serenade” Sometimes the mystery of existence—that...
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‘Lilacs’
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Dybek, Stuart
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LILACS Stuart Dybek This should be tapped in staccato like a telegram, on an obsolete Underwood condemned to a grated pawnshop window, for disseminating what was banned, striking a...
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