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Vol. 141 Issue 003 (February 7 2014)
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Letters
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letters Catholic schools, Catholic hospitals, etc. THE OLD WAYS STILL WORK Regarding "Rethinking Catholic Schools: Who Needs Them?" by Fr. Nonomen (December 6, 2013): The elementary school of Fr....
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So Far, So Good
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From the Editors So Far, So Good In November, the West and Iran agreed in principle to an interim agreement that would loosen economic sanctions for a six-month period in exchange for the...
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COMMONWEAL ONLINE LISTEN UP From the dotCommonweal post "What We Don't Already Know," by Rita Ferrone: When I read in the National Catholic Reporter that thirteen German moral theologians and...
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A Hole in the Basket
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Nonomen, Fr.
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COLUMNIST Fr. Nonomen A Hole in the Basket WITH SUNDAY COLLECTIONS, YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE Whenever I'm with a group of fellow priests, especially pastors, the conversation usually gets around to...
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Getting On with It
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Pippenger, Nathan
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SHORT TAKES Nathan Pippenger Getting On with It iN POLiTiCS, THE PERFECT iS THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD Politics, the saying goes, is the art of the possible; yet this hard-earned bit of wisdom is too...
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Enlightened Self-Interest
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Moses, Paul
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Paul Moses Enlightened Self-Interest WHY NEW YORKERS MADE BILL DE BLASIO MAYOR d 1 loomberg fatigue" is the explanation frequently presented for progressive Democrat Bill de Blasio's landslide...
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At Our Mercy
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Johnson, Elizabeth A.
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ARTICLES At Our Mercy The Tree of Life Now Depends on One Twig Elizabeth A. Johnson In the previous issue of Commonweal, I explained how Charles Darwin's account of the origin of species...
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Just Warriors, Unjust Wars?
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PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
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Just Warriors, Unjust Wars? Deciding When It's All Right to Fight Bernard G. Prusak The philosopher Jeff McMahan opens his extraordinary 2009 book, Killing in War, with a reflection on Ludwig...
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The Art of the Con
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Alleva, Richard
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FILM Richard Alleva The Art of the Con 'AMERICAN HUSTLE' & 'THE WOLF OF WALL STREET' We've all seen movies in which con men don disguises, but when Irving Rosenfeld, the fraudster-hero of David...
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The Experience of God
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Robbins, Michael
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THEOLOGICAL BOOKS Michael Robbins He Is Who Is The Experience of God Being, Consciousness, Bliss David Bentley Hart Yale University Press, $25, 376 pp. Rilke's Malte Laurids Brigge asks, "Is...
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Religion without God
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Horwitz, Paul
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Paul Horwitz D workin's Jisei Religion Without God Ronald Dworkin Harvard University Press, $17.95, 192 pp. Ronald Dworkin, who died this year at eighty-one, was one of the leading legal...
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A Silent Action
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Isbell, Harold
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Harold Isbell Beyond the Cloister A Silent Action Engagements with Thomas Merton Rowan Williams Fons Vitae, $19.95, 96 pp. Like most of us, Rowan Williams, retired archbishop of Canterbury,...
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The Global war on christians
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Reynolds, Gabriel Said
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Gabriel Said Reynolds When Martyrdom Isn't a Metaphor The Global War on Christians Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution John L. Allen Jr. Image, $25, 320 pp. Toward...
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Levels of Life
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Donoghue, Denis
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Denis Donoghue Grief Detained Levels of Life Julian Barnes Knopf, 128 pp., $22.95 Levels of Life consists of an essay, "The Sin of Height" (twenty-eight pages), a story of sorts, "On the Level"...
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Rerouted
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Christie, Dolores L.
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the last word Rerouted Dolores L. Christie Pain in my left arm signaled something wrong with this seventy-something body. The doctor ordered tests. "Take some Ativan before you come," he said,...
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