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 Vol. 152 Issue 010 (November 11 2025)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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In memoriam, nature’s beauty A LASTING LEGACY I was sorry to learn of the death of Rosemary Deen, Commonweal’s longtime poetry editor. In addition to the incredible contribution she made...
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Pope Leo’s exhortation
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FROM THE EDITORS An Urgent Exhortation Pope Leo XIV’s first apostolic exhortation, Dilexi te, arrived on the feast day of St. Francis of Asissi—fittingly for a message “to all Christians on...
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Ceasefire in Gaza
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Doyle, Miles
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The Gaza Ceasefire In his address to Israel’s parliament on October 13, Donald Trump declared the end of a long and difficult war in the Middle East. “Some people say three thousand years. Some...
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ICE in Chicago
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Simon, Isabella
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The Bishops
and ICE In and around Chicago, ICE has broken down doors, zip-tied and detained residents regardless of their legal status, and trashed their homes without warrants. Federal troops...
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Remembering Patrick Jordan
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Smith, Karen Sue
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. KAREN SUE SMITH Love in Action Remembering Patrick Jordan Patrick Jordan, who died on October 2, was a man of deep faith who internalized the Beatitudes and practiced the...
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Pete Hegseth
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Himes, Kenneth R.
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KENNETH R. HIMES Shameful Warrior How Pete Hegseth is undermining a military effort to curb civilian casualties Among the many contentious cabinet nominations of President Donald...
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The bishops’ witness
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Reilly, Mollie Wilson O’
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Every day brings a new threat to our clarity, and I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that the latest distraction came from the pope himself. MOLLIE WILSON O’REILLY Priority Check In...
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Drones in Denmark
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Jensen, Morten Høi
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MORTEN HØI JENSEN Drone Fever Letter from Denmark When the First World War broke out in 1914, the Danish literary critic Georg Brandes was among the rare voices of reason in a...
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Charlie Kirk and universities
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McNamara, Charles
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CHARLES MCNAMARA The Gladiator & the Gadfly The difference between good content and a good education My Ancient Ethics class meets in the basement of the chemistry building. In our bookish...
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St. Godric
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Kane, Lauren
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Patron of Strivers Lauren Kane What the story of St. Godric, a medieval merchant-turned-monk, tells us about faith and wealth, then and now One morning in the late eleventh century, after a...
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Evangelical roads not taken
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Fea, John
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Roads Not Taken John Fea On the exit ramps Evangelicals ignored White Evangelical Christians are an essential and reliable part of Donald Trump’s electoral base. In 2016, 2020, and again in...
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Must Catholics forgive?
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Pope, Stephen J.
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Must We Always Forgive? Stephen J. Pope Christian morality does not require everything that
it encourages. Many Christians have the impression that the Gospel requires us to forgive every...
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‘A Journey Down the Spree’
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Skillman, Judith
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A JOURNEY DOWN THE SPREE Judith Skillman The German countryside does not lament. It keeps an arbor of green for those who watch from a yacht at center of the river young...
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Privacy and deculturation
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Stern, Alexander
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Qualities Without Men Alexander Stern Is inner life on the way out? Clorox knows what you’re experiencing better than you do. The cleaning-supplies company recently launched an...
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‘To the Monks’
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Snook, Christopher
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TO THE MONKS: RANGE BETWEEN THE ARMIES for G.T. Christopher Snook advent in the desert and dry bone dust of dayspring drip-dropping the thrush and the burning and now the waiting now...
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Brandon Taylor
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Domestico, Anthony
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Learning from Zola An interview with Brandon Taylor ANTHONY DOMESTICO Minor Black Figures is Brandon Taylor’s third and, to my mind, best novel. Its main character, Wyeth, is a painter who...
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‘One Battle After Another’
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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RAND RICHARDS COOPER No Stretch Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’ Could there be a novelist more challenging for film adaptation than Thomas Pynchon? Pynchon’s rambling,...
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Thinking with Rivers
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Miller, Vincent
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Thinking with Rivers VINCENT MILLER “No one steps into the same river twice.” This aphorism, from the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, has been debated for millennia. For...
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‘Upriver’
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Briscoe, John
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POETRY UPRIVER Repatriation of the remains John Briscoe Up the Mekong they come, still fifty and sixty years on by boat and oar, boat and motor, by canoe and oar, by...
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Mother Media
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Zeavin, Hannah
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Moms Versus Machines NAOMI FISHER Technology has invaded and now dominates the everyday lives of families like an occupying force. Many conversations among parents lament the futility of...
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Hayek’s Bastards
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Bastards, Hayek’s
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Is Populism a Neoliberalism? GARETH DALE What explains the global surge of authoritarian populism and the far right? Some identify the cause as blowback from globalization or even a...
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The Last Supper
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Elie, Paul
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Saints in
the City PAUL MOSES The culture scene of the 1980s passed me by. Between raising young children and working all hours to cover breaking news in New York City, there wasn’t time...
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Unforgivable
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Neill, Kevin Lewis O’
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Bad Tidings BERNARD G. PRUSAK The Church’s sexual-abuse scandal is two scandals in one. There is the scandal of priests, religious, and other powerful figures abusing children and vulnerable...
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Thoreau’s God
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Higgins, Richard
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Tuned to
the World TODD SHY For much of my reading life, I misunderstood what are surely the most familiar lines in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden: “If a man does not keep pace with...
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A new home
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Wycliff, Don
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What a Smile Can Mean DON WYCLIFF In August 1954, when I was seven years old, my family uprooted from our ancestral home in Dayton, Texas, and moved to Ashland, Kentucky, where my...
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