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Vol. 151 Issue 002 (February 2 2024)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Letters
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Theological reflections and consumer culpability
REFLECTING ON THE REAL PRESENCE
I found John Cavadini’s short take, “The Eucharist & the Poor” (November 2023), meaningful on several levels. I’ve...
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No End in Sight
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FROM THE EDITORS No End in Sight Since October, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East has been animated by a single goal: to contain the conflict in Gaza and prevent it from spiraling into a...
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Deadly Roads
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Munch, Regina
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Executioners in Chief For a time, it seemed the United States would end the use of capital punishment at the federal level. There’d been an unofficial moratorium on executions in place since...
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Seeds of Hope
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Ramos, Santiago
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Seeds of Hope Although the outgoing government did everything it could to stop him, on January 15, Bernardo Arévalo was sworn in as president of Guatemala. Around midnight, after hours of delays,...
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In the Pink
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O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
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MOLLIE WILSON O’REILLY In the Pink Rose-colored vestments are nothing to fear. It happens twice a year, in March and in December, and somehow it always catches me off-guard. I’m talking about...
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Gestures of Grace
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Ivereigh, Austen
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AUSTEN IVEREIGH Gestures of Grace ‘Fiducia supplicans’ offers a broader understanding of blessings. Remember Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa waking his Italian parish priest on the way to...
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Damage & Survival
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Pinault, David
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DAVID PINAULT Damage & Survival Letter from Cambodia A morning jog—and attentiveness to street signs—can teach you about a city’s past and present, and maybe even reveal hints of its future. ...
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Old Walls, New Life
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Curti, Elena
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ELENA CURTI Old Walls, New Life In the United Kingdom, conservationists and migrant parishioners work together to save churches. One morning in 2019, after torrential rain, Bill O’Neill...
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Meeting the Moment
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Miller, Vincent; Tverdek, Edward
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Meeting the Moment Two readings of ‘Laudate Deum’ More Than a Sequel Edward Tverdek The experience of living through a particular time period can, of course, be quite different from a...
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Faith on Foot
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Sorrentino, Joseph
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Faith on Foot Sights and sounds of the pilgrimage to the Villa Guadalupe JOSEPH SORRENTINO Pilgrims arrive at the Villa Guadalupe in Mexico City between December 9 and December 12, the Día de...
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China's Living Dead
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Lynch, Elizabeth M.
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China’s Living Dead Elizabeth M. Lynch In Xinjiang province, the government’s assault on the Uyghurs has entered a new, insidious phase. Gulbahar Haitiwaji hoped it would be the last time she...
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Aubade
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Andrews-Hoke, Magda
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AUBADE Magda Andrews-Hoke Casually, a sleep undoes it. The limited, lackluster premonition of my days parts its dusty waves. I wake from drowning. It is morning. Lowering like...
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Gnostic Underground
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Smith, Aaron Lake
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Gnostic Underground Aaron Lake Smith Finding God in the anarchist, punk subculture When Jesus descended into hell, the sinners listened to his words and were all saved. But the saints, believing...
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The sin of segregation
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Dunne, George H.
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The Sin of Segregation GEORGE H. DUNNE The immorality of racial segregation The racist mind has contrived an almost limitless number of evasive analogies to justify the unjustifiable. They are...
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An Anatomy Lesson
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Stern, Alexander
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ALEXANDER STERN An Anatomy Lesson The trailer for the classic 1959 legal thriller Anatomy of a Murder is strange. It opens not with scenes from the movie but in a courtroom, where a bailiff...
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How to Read Paul
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East, Brad
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How to Read Paul BRAD EAST Of all conversion stories, St. Paul’s is surely the most famous. As a zealous Pharisee, Saul was a tortured soul persecuting his fellow Jews for their dangerous faith in...
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Integralism's False Promise
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Sweeney, Terence
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Integralism’s False Promise TERENCE SWEENEY You don’t have to be a member of the Catholic Worker movement to be attracted to its political vision. You certainly don’t need to be a Christian...
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The 'Times' Is A-Changing
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Moses, Paul
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The ‘Times’ Is A-Changing PAUL MOSES The press briefing the New York Times Co. held to announce the appointment of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. as the newspaper’s publisher began on what was, for...
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Books In Brief
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BOOKS IN BRIEF Kensington is the poorest part of Philadelphia, a neighborhood where the drug trade is rampant, living conditions are precarious or hazardous, and babies have a life expectancy on...
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'Wild Butchery of Souls'
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Klay, Phil
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‘Wild Butchery of Souls’ PHIL KLAY When he set out to write about World War I, in which he’d served as an infantryman, David Jones gave himself a straightforward task: “To make a shape in words,...
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Attention and Poetry
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Campo, Cristina
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Attention and Poetry CRISTINA CAMPO TRANSLATED BY ALEX ANDRIESSE Truth did not come into the world naked but in symbols and images. There is rebirth, and there is an image of rebirth, and it is...
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In South Carolina, Outside the Party
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Edwards, Sarah
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IN SOUTH CAROLINA, OUTSIDE THE PARTY Sarah Edwards Dry thunder. And across the river, a slake of lightning in bright retreat. My mind’s not yours. It lacks distinction. Look with me, look at...
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