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 Vol. 151 Issue 003 (March 3 2024)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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ARE THE U.S. BISHOPS SLEEPWALKING? Regarding Peter Steinfels’s article “Preeminently Outdated” (January 2024), I only want to say thank you for your voice. Clearly, Pope Francis does care. I...
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Aid for Ukraine
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FROM THE EDITORS Betraying Ukraine After Donald Trump was roundly criticized for claiming he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies that failed to spend enough on defense, he tried to...
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Climate accountability
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Simon, Isabella
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‘Birth Doesn’t Wait’ At the beginning of Israel’s invasion of Gaza, the world had its eyes on dozens of premature newborns in the NICU at Al-Shifa hospital. The babies were crowded...
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Endemic Covid
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Doyle, Miles
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A Different Phase In May 2023, the state of Oregon quietly broke with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Covid-related quarantine recommendations....
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The Paschal Mystery
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Ferrone, Rita
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SHORT TAKES RITA FERRONE A Paschal Mystery Why are bishops downplaying a paradigm of the Christian life? When the American bishops produced their multi-year plan for a National Eucharistic...
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The FBI & the Catholic Left
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Alaigh, Arvin
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SHORT TAKES ARVIN ALAIGH Kidnapping Kissinger When the FBI feared the
Catholic Left On November 27, 1970, in front of a sparsely attended subcommittee hearing of the all-important...
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Taiwan’s elections
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Wu, Albert
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SHORT TAKES ALBERT WU A Normal Country Letter from Taiwan Attend a dinner banquet with Taiwanese people over a certain age—say, sixty—and you can expect a favorite genre of conversation:...
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Metaphors at the border
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Hoover, Brett C.
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SHORT TAKES BRETT C. HOOVER ‘Inundated’ Our metaphors reveal what
we think about immigration. Fifteen years ago, while doing field research in a parish transformed by immigration from...
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Cuban returnees
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Torres, Núria López
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PHOTO ESSAY The Trauma of the Returnee NÚRIA LÓPEZ TORRES With its economy collapsing, Cuba is in the middle of its largest exodus in sixty-five years. In 2022, U.S. border authorities...
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Hannah Arendt on the New Right
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Hill, Samantha Rose
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ARTICLE Thinking Like a Communist Samantha Rose Hill Hannah Arendt on the New Right [T]hey are introducing police methods into normal social life. Because, without exception, they name...
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Forgiveness in Genesis
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Robinson, Marilynne
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ARTICLE Another Kind of Vision Marilynne Robinson In Genesis, every instance of forgiveness is rewarded by consequences that could not have been foreseen or imagined. The ending of Genesis...
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‘In the Absence of Clear Guidance’
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Raatikainen, Lisa
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POETRY IN THE ABSENCE OF CLEAR GUIDANCE Lisa Raatikainen I chose the colors myself: Eggshell and cream for the walls, and for the cabinetry a pale yellow named for some spring flower...
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Catholics and Hollywood
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Kerr, Walter
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FROM THE ARCHIVES By its fourth decade of publication, Commonweal had secured a place of eminence—as well as a reputation for controversy—in American journalism. Largely defined by the work of...
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Tim Parks
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Oleynick, Griffin
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INTERVIEW Life, as
Pasolini Saw It
An interview with Tim Parks In addition to nineteen novels, British writer Tim Parks is the author of several books of nonfiction and numerous critical...
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‘It Is This That Is Intended’
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Joseph, Lawrence
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POETRY IT IS THIS THAT IS INTENDED Lawrence Joseph It is this that is intended, an execution regime death row prisoners must propose an alternative killing method preferred to lethal...
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‘Maria Prymachenko: Glory to Ukraine’
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Buskey, Megan
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ART MEGAN BUSKEY She Remembers Everything ‘Maria Prymachenko:
Glory to Ukraine’ The magpie is dressed to impress—and knows it. She wears a multi-strand red necklace, a floral crown, and a...
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W. H. Auden
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Rouner, Helen
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CRITIC AT LARGE HELEN ROUNER Dust to Dust Poetry for a world marked by death Last summer, as I sat waiting for a train in Penn Station, I noticed a figure approaching and trying to get my...
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‘The Pilot’s Log: A Ballad’
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Oser, Lee
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POETRY THE PILOT’S LOG: A BALLAD Lee Oser Long Island Sound. Spring. Over the flaking tide The ferry creeps to the dock. Its braggy bullhorn taps The lighthouse like an egg. ...
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Absolution by Alice McDermott
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Domestico, Anthony
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BOOKS Letters from War’s Edge ANTHONY DOMESTICO Early in Alice McDermott’s 2006 novel After This, a thirty-year-old unmarried woman named Mary Keane struggles with how to respond to some...
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All Things Move by Jeannie Marshall
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Reimer, Jeff
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Looking at God JEFF REIMER There are two difficulties with writing about Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. One is saying anything fresh about them. The other is seeing...
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More by Molly Roden Winter
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Fortenberry, Dorothy
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BOOKS Sadness in Abundance DOROTHY FORTENBERRY In 2002, Meredith Berkman sued the manufacturer of the nutritionally dubious snack Pirate’s Booty for $50 million because its label...
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Wellness by Nathan Hill
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Deignan, Tom
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BOOKS The Limits of Braininess TOM DEIGNAN There is a scene in Nathan Hill’s hilarious, terrifying, and dazzling new novel in which his married protagonists, Jack and Elizabeth, stroll into...
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Peace Sign
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Schilling, Timothy P.
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LAST WORD Peace Sign A lesson from my father TIMOTHY P. SCHILLING In September 2021, I reported Dad missing. He’d been off the radar before, but this time when I asked around, we realized it...
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