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 Vol. 137 Issue 013 (July 16 2010)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 LETTERS
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Letters Say it ain't so, Jo ON THE MARK I want you to know that your last two issues have struck me as more superb than usual. Congratulations to staff and contributors for such excellence! Let...
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dotCOMMONWEAL
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dotCommonweal CLICK HERE In March 2006, the editors decided to try something new. We started a blog. With the help of several regular contributors, Commonweal begat dotCommonweal. Below are two...
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Politics & the Court
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From the Editors Politics & the Court President Barack Obama has been in office for less than two years, and he has already been given the opportunity to fill two Supreme Court vacancies. As this...
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A Tree Full of Monkeys
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Garvey, John
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Columnists John Qarvey A Tree Full of Monkeys WHY THE SOUL NEEDS SILENCE In the earliest years of Christian teaching, dogma was proclaimed only when a denial of something (Jesus' humanity or his...
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The Sound of Life
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Nonomen, Fr.
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Fr. Nonomen The Sound of Life SUFFER THE CHILDREN, EVEN WHEN THEY CRY Two weeping cherry trees stand opposite each other on the grounds of my church. One has been there for nearly twenty years....
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Shoddy Work, Shabby Excuses
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Speight, Tom
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Short Take Tom Speight Shoddy Work, Shabby Excuses LESSONS FROM THE BP SPILL The Deepwater Horizon disaster will probably be remembered as the most severe environmental catastrophe of the early...
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A Reckoning
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Osborn, Ronald
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Articles A Reckoning The Price Tag for America's Wars Ronald Osborn Republican lawmakers have declared that President Barack Obama's new health'care law will literally bankrupt the nation,...
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O We are Many My Angels Are Dark Consider the Buttercup
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Menashe, Samuel
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O We Are Many O we are many Some too fat Others too skinny Take us back For God's sake My Angels Are Dark My angels are dark They are slaves in the market But I see how beautiful they...
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The Catholic Hitchcock
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Alleva, Richard
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The Catholic Hitchcock A Director's Sense of Good & Evil Richard Alleva "I don't think I can be labeled a Catholic artist," the director Alfred Hitchcock told Francois Truffaut, "but it may be...
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The Mourners
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Boudway, Matthew
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Art Matthew Boudway Mourning Glory 'THE MOURNERS: TOMB SCULPTURES FROM THE COURT OF BURGUNDY' Public expressions of grief, even at their most authentic, are a kind of performance. The tears may...
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Neighbors from Hell
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Wren, Celia
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Media Celia Wren Sympathy for the Devil TBS'S 'NEIGHBORS FROM HELL' Dante's Inferno stands on its head in the mildly amusing, candy-colored series Neighbors from Hell, the first original...
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The Flight of the Intellectuals
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Ryan, Patrick J.
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Books Patrick J. Ryan Fellow Travelers? The Flight of the Intellectuals Paul Berman Melville House, $26, 299 pp. Paul Berman, writer in residence at New York University, has returned to the...
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Orlando Furioso
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Hart, David B.
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David B. Hart Taking Liberties Orlando Furioso A New Verse Translation Ludovico Ariosto translated by David R. Slavitt Belknap Harvard, $39.95, 672 pp. During the high Middle Ages, poems...
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The Spirit Level
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Finn, Daniel
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Daniel Finn Mind the Gap The Spirit Level Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett Bloomsbury Press, $28, 352 pp. What if someone told you that a single...
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Why Animal Suffering Matters
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PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
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Bernard Q. Prusak Humane Society? Why Animal Suffering Matters Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics Andrew Linzey Oxford University Press, $29.95, 206 pp. Three years ago, in response to...
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The Vatican Top Ten
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Flanagan, Bill
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The Last Word The Vatican Top Ten Bill Flanagan Ihave been working for MTV Networks for fifteen years and have written several books about rock 'n' roll. I never expected to find the church...
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