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February
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 Vol. 152 Issue 002 (February 1 2025)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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Conditional surrender, ‘Conclave,’ and Puerto Rico IN DEFENSE OF JUST-WAR THINKERS Gerald W. Schlabach’s article (“In Defense of White Flags,” December) rightly clarifies how a “white flag” can be...
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From the Editos
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FROM THE EDITORS ‘Their’ War As expected, Donald Trump marked the first full day of his administration by issuing an array of executive orders designed to inflict harm on migrants, asylum...
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Cardinal McElroy
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Preziosi, Dominic
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A Mission of Emissions To “restore U.S. energy dominance.” To “unleash economic prosperity” by “roll[ing] back regulations.” These will be some of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) main...
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Prison labor
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Doyle, Miles
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Gross Pay Of the estimated fourteen thousand firefighters who took on the devastating wildfires throughout the Los Angeles area in January, approximately one thousand were...
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Careless people
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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CATHLEEN KAVENY Teach Us
to Care… …and not to care “I really don’t care. Do you?” These words were emblazoned on a jacket that Melania Trump infamously wore to visit a Texas refugee...
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Pacific Palisades
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Whelan, Patrick
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PATRICK WHELAN Prayers for Pacific Palisades Jimmy Carter’s message of hope amid suffering Like President Jimmy Carter, Pacific Palisades recently celebrated its one hundredth birthday....
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Closing Catholic colleges
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Caverly, Will
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WILL CAVERLY Losing Faith in Higher Education
Small liberal-arts colleges, Catholic and not, face closures and mergers. “Attention all alumni! Tomorrow (FRIDAY, JULY 19) is the last...
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A new papal encyclical
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Banchoff, Thomas
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THOMAS BANCHOFF ‘Make Room for the Heart’ ‘Dilexit nos’ joins religious devotion to social and political justice. At first glance, Pope Francis’s most recent encyclical, Dilexit...
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Life with the Poor Clares in Spain
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n, Laura Leó
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Cloistered Freedom LAURA LEÓN Founded in 1212 by St. Clare and St. Francis of Assisi, the Poor Clares are the only female order following a rule written by its own founder. The sisters take...
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The attention regime
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Barba-Kay, Antón
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The Attention Trap Antón Barba-Kay How the concept became a cornerstone of tech ideology We have a deficit. It’s scattered and short-spanned. We are unable to pay it. Attention is...
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Housing as an investment
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Denbow, Jennifer
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The Best Investment I Never Made Jennifer Denbow On not buying a house I almost bought a house in the town Oprah once dubbed “the happiest place in America.” In the spring of 2022, my...
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‘Red Swan’
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Swann, Brian
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RED SWAN Brian Swann
I found bits of it even when
it maybe wasn’t there like clouds
or shadow. I found it when
I wasn’t even looking or didn’t want it, or it found me...
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Why not have children?
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Fisher, Naomi
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Little Life-Ruiners Naomi Fisher How we came to see children as a burden–and how to stop “Kids will ruin your life,” a friend once told me, cheerfully. “They’re little life-ruiners.” He...
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Martin Scorsese
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Spadaro, Antonio
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Faith in the Streets
An interview with Martin Scorsese in conversation with Antonio Spadaro, SJ
Translated by Griffin Oleynick Last summer, the Horcynus Festival in Messina, Sicily,...
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‘Votive Candles’
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Stein, Gary
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VOTIVE CANDLES Gary Stein 1. In every bishop’s cathedral just before the nave racks of sparkly flames in little glass cubes defy the cold darkness lit by believers in need of...
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The Message
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Coates, Ta-Nehisi
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The Writer as Superhero VINCENT LLOYD When Ta-Nehisi Coates spoke about his new book, The Message, in his hometown of Baltimore, six hundred people packed into the public library to hear...
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Annihilation
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Houellebecq, Michel
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The Last
Judgment of Michel Houellebecq MARCUS HIJKOOP You should always be skeptical when writers announce that they are finished writing. In 2011, the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgård...
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Hell
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Morton, Timothy
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Just the Goodies MAX FOLEY-KEENE One of the most influential environmental philosophers of the past two decades has found Jesus. Timothy Morton, who trained as a scholar of Romantic poetry,...
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Parade
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Cusk, Rachel
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Missed Connections JESSICA SWOBODA Reading a Rachel Cusk novel is like watching a recording of your everyday life, with all your subtly unflattering habits, traits, and actions. A...
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Criticizing the critics
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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RAND RICHARDS COOPER The Shredder’s Trade The pleasures and perils of criticism Years ago I got an email from a friend who knew a fiction writer I’d reviewed in the New York Times. It...
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‘Vidi Aquam’
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Hartsock, Katie
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VIDI AQUAM Katie Hartsock We ran in from the thunderstorm’s medieval bells swinging hawthorn, forsythia, cherry blossoms ripped by wind, and the whole ethereal palette so strangely...
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Against optimization
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Munch, Regina
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Doing Enough REGINA MUNCH In college, a guidance counselor regularly lectured our cohort on the importance of being “impactful.” Impactful people are “doers”: they see a problem, need, or...
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