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 Vol. 153 Issue 007 (July 1 2026)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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AI in writing and a defense of ownerism WRESTLING AND FRETTING Rand Richards Cooper’s “Humanity on the Page” (May 2026) was a joy to read. It woke me up, flicked on multiple lights, and...
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Drone warfare
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FROM THE EDITORS Automated Barbarism A dead Russian infantryman is worth twelve points in Ukraine’s “Army of Drones Bonus” system, a gamified incentive program recently instituted in its...
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Virgil Michel’s liturgical vision
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Ferrone, Rita
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SHORT TAKES RITA FERRONE No One Can Say ‘I Don’t Need You’ Virgil Michel’s vision of the
liturgy and social justice
remains urgent. One of the most fascinating bits of liturgical history in...
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Remembering Robert Coles
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Woodward, Kenneth L.
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SHORT TAKES A man sitting in a chair with a bookshelf behind him.
Description generated by AI KENNETH L. WOODWARD Beyond Couch and Clinic Remembering Robert Coles As Robert Coles and I...
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Learning from silence
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Kayra, Ersun Augustinus
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SHORT TAKES ERSUN AUGUSTINUS KAYRA When Words Fall Away What the strange gift of silence can teach us about speaking
the truth Three months before my grandmother died, she stopped talking....
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Nietzsche in the monastery
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bel, Christian Gö
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SHORT TAKES CHRISTIAN GÖBEL Nietzsche’s Monasticism What the self-proclaimed
‘Antichrist’ got right about Christian love Many know little about Friedrich Nietzsche beyond “God is dead” and...
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Reading ‘Magnifica humanitas’
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McGreevy, Meghan Sullivan, Frank Pasquale, Kevin Gallagher, Vincent J. Miller, Antonio Spadaro, John
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ARTICLE Reading
‘Magnifica
Humanitas’ Meghan Sullivan Frank Pasquale Kevin Gallagher Vincent J. Miller Antonio Spadaro John T. McGreevy As recent advances in artificial intelligence...
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‘This Paltry Ego’
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Deane, John F.
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POETRY THIS PALTRY EGO John F. Deane You are running, delighted, up the rough-made laneway to the lake where you are sailor, eel-fisher, pilot; it’s after-school time, you are free-bird,...
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Black Millennial spirituality
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Robertson, Aaron
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ARTICLE After the
Black Church Aaron Robertson Millennial Black Americans began an exodus away from Christian churches. Many are trying to replace what those places gave them. Lately I have...
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The Eucharistic out in the world
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Muensterman, Kathryn
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ARTICLE From Summit to Source Kathryn Muensterman On a Eucharistic dialogue with the world The Eucharist, in the eyes of the Church, is the “source and summit of the Christian life.” In...
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Healing the Catholic right
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Blakely, David Albertson and Jason
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ARTICLE Injury as Destiny David Albertson and Jason Blakely Thomas More and the healing of the Catholic right On April 20, the right-wing commentator and early MAGA champion Tucker Carlson...
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Fear and political polarization
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Dickey, Colin
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ARTICLE Memento Mori Colin Dickey Did the omnipresence of death during the pandemic turn us rightward? Occasionally, one still sees the physical traces. A weathered, scuffed-up sticker on...
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‘Waidmannslust’
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Kinstler, Linda
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Waidmannslust Linda Kinstler The guest judge of Commonweal’s 2026 fiction contest, National Book Award–winning author Phil Klay, writes: In some ways, Linda Kinstler’s haunting “Waidmannslust” is...
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Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe
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Daut, Vincent Ray M.
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INTERVIEW Being Christian Means Being Alive
An interview with Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe, OP VINCENT RAY M. DAUT Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe is a Dominican friar and former Master of the...
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‘Agnus Dei’
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Oleynick, Griffin
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FILM GRIFFIN OLEYNICK Feed My Lambs Massimiliano Camaiti’s
‘Agnus Dei’ Among the several traditional liturgical celebrations restored over the past year by Pope Leo XIV, there’s one obscure...
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Effingers by Gabriele Tergit
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Jensen, Morten Høi
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BOOKS Distressingly Resonant MORTEN HØI JENSEN Toward the end of Gabriele Tergit’s 1951 novel Effingers, Erwin and Lotte Effinger travel to Landro in South Tyrol, where they intend to spend...
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Diogenes by Inger N. I. Kuin
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an, Costică Brădăţ
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BOOKS A man is sitting in a small hut with a dog and two cats.
Description generated by AI Say Everything COSTICA BRADATAN One day, an ancient anecdote tells us, Diogenes the Cynic...
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The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy by A.J.A. Woods
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McManus, Matt
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BOOKS The Serpent
in the Garden MATT MCMANUS Most Americans would probably say that the capitalist West won the Cold War, but they would be wrong. They need to wake up and realize that, in...
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When We See You Again by Rachel Goldberg-Polin
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Grant, Nava
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BOOKS A woman wearing sunglasses and a black shirt with a number 23 on it.
Description generated by AI The Before and the After NAVA GRANT “We have third-degree burns on our...
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End of Days by Chris Jennings
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Deignan, Tom
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BOOKS A group of people standing in a field.
Description generated by AI Trouble in Paradise TOM DEIGNAN If the “short twentieth century” ended with the 1991 collapse of communism, a...
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‘Porcupine’
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Swann, Brian
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POETRY PORCUPINE Brian Swann The shore’s a line of broken speech, the sea a sensation at the edge of things shaking off excess in which seabirds wheel, needing no one to...
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Dementia in the monastery
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Slater, Isaac
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LAST WORD A group of men wearing white robes stand in front of a table.
Description generated by AI A Good Place to Lose
Your Mind ISAAC SLATER One of our monks, let’s call him Fr....
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‘Woman with Poodle’
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Bohince, Paula
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POETRY WOMAN WITH POODLE Paula Bohince Amethysts like the day closing down, chignon a neat storm cloud. Something fished for in an alligator clutch, her lips a red secret. Her poodle...
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