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January
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 Vol. 151 Issue 001 (January 1 2024)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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The war in Gaza, eucharistic realism, Louis Bouyer’s insights, and George Eliot’s continued relevance A DEADLY ROAD Wise words from Andrew J. Bacevich (“The Israel-Gaza War Will Fail,” December...
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The GOP's legislative extortion
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The Price to Be Paid Before leaving Washington for the December holiday recess, House Republicans devoted the waning hours to authorizing an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden....
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Fossil fuels at COP28
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Simon, Isabella
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‘The World Needs Blessings’ On December 18, the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) issued the doctrinal declaration Fiducia supplicans, granting priests permission to bless...
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Gaza and campus free speech
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Stern, Alexander
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Stefanik’s Stunt As a brief ceasefire ended in Gaza and Israeli forces escalated attacks that have killed nearly twenty thousand Palestinians—most of them civilians—the war has...
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The ministry of community theater
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Reynolds, Susan Bigelow
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SUSAN BIGELOW REYNOLDS Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Governess My foray into the world of Catholic community theater Facing the looming weight of an academic year filled with...
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The USCCB voting guide
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guide, The USCCB voting
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PETER STEINFELS Preeminently Outdated A troubling omission in the bishops’ guide for Catholic voters In November, the nation’s Catholic bishops issued, as they do every four years,...
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Letter from India
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McGowan, Jo
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JO MCGOWAN ‘They Asked My Name’ Letter from India “Miracles,” by Seamus Heaney, has always been a favorite poem of mine. This week it felt turbocharged in its power and humility. Not the...
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Emmanuel Falque's Christian philosophy
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Albertson, David
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Fraternity
in Finitude David Albertson Emmanuel Falque and the future of Christian philosophy He leapt to the podium with youthful energy and gripped the lectern with both hands. Pausing...
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Hmong New Year
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Courteau, Darcy
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After the Harvest DARCY COURTEAU Hmong New Year traditions take root
in the Ozarks. Winter was coming. The bare oaks left ridgelines fronded with junipers, and farmers were in their fields,...
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Security as a foundational value
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Chappel, James
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Putting
Security First James Chappel “True individual freedom,” argued Franklin Roosevelt in 1935, “cannot exist without economic security.” This sounds like pablum, but it’s actually...
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Just war
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Maritain, Jacques
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Just War
JACQUES MARITAIN
A French philosopher discusses the criteria for a just war as they apply to the present conflict. With what power events, when they involve...
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'The Unshakeable May Remain'
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Kampa, Stephen
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POETRY THE UNSHAKABLE MAY REMAIN Stephen Kampa Wracked by weekend storms, The ocean froths, spumes, leaps and flops, creating A foamscape of brief forms, Of light-spark-pointed crests and...
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Alexander Payne
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Payne, Alexander
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RAND RICHARDS COOPER Permanent Uncertainty The ambiguities of
Alexander Payne There’s a fascinating scene late in Sideways, Alexander Payne’s 2005 hit comedy about two old college pals on a...
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'Manet/Degas'
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Rubsam, Robert
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ROBERT RUBSAM Not What
but How ‘Manet/Degas’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art It is a truth only rarely acknowledged that when an artist succeeds, their peers will smile and applaud and...
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Noreen Herzfeld, John P. Slattery & Bishop Paul Tighe
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Munch, Regina
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Imitation
Isn’t Enough An interview with
Bishop Paul Tighe,
Noreen Herzfeld,
and John P. Slattery In December, the AI Research Group for the Vatican Centre for Digital Culture released...
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Tyranny, Inc.
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Ahmari, Sohrab
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A Conservative’s Case for Social Democracy ANTHONY ANNETT Shortly before his untimely death from ALS in 2010, the British historian Tony Judt wrote Ill Fares the Land, a love letter...
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Nihilistic Times
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Brown, Wendy
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Sober Visionaries MAEVE COOKE Political scientist Wendy Brown is a relentless critic of neoliberalism, well known for her interrogations of power, citizenship, and political identity in...
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The Idea of Fraternity in America
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McWilliams, Wilson Carey
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Where They
Call Each
Other ‘Brother’ SAMUEL GOLDMAN The statistics would be shocking if their impact were not dulled by repetition. Record drug-overdose deaths. Mounting crime,...
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The Lights
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Lerner, Ben
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The Poet’s Place ADAM FLEMING PETTY Some friends and I have a running argument about Amanda Gorman, the young poet who read at Joe Biden’s inauguration. Gorman, they say, is not exactly a...
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The ecstatic
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Giraldi, William
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WILLIAM GIRALDI The Ecstatic Why we still need it In The Bacchae of Euripides, the god Dionysus shows up in the city of Thebes well disguised as an effeminate shaman. Behind him dances and...
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'Night Cry'
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Cry', 'Night
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POETRY NIGHT CRY Tom Hansen Is it a phantom from some lost land so long forgotten, never quite gone— some exiled spirit whose wild night cry startles the darkness into reply? We who...
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A portrait of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
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Mills, David
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A No-Nonsense Thérèse DAVID MILLS The woman staring out from the painting looked serious to me, as if she was saying that she’s not taking any nonsense from the likes of you. She looked, in...
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'Nativity Song'
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Searcy, Steven
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POETRY NATIVITY SONG Steven Searcy What birthday could be stranger? “Before Abraham was, I AM,” born into mortal danger— the wise man, shepherd, star, and lamb, lying in a...
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