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IssueVol. 141 Issue 003 (February 7 2014)
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Paid articleLetters
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....
Paid articleSo Far, So Good
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...
Paid articleCommonweal Online
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...
Paid articleA Hole in the Basket
Nonomen, Fr.
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...
Paid articleGetting On with It
Pippenger, Nathan
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...
Paid articleEnlightened Self-Interest
Moses, Paul
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...
Paid articleAt Our Mercy
Johnson, Elizabeth A.
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...
Paid articleJust Warriors, Unjust Wars?
PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
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...
Paid articleThe Art of the Con
Alleva, Richard
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...
Paid articleThe Experience of God
Robbins, Michael
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...
Paid articleReligion without God
Horwitz, Paul
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...
Paid articleA Silent Action
Isbell, Harold
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,...
Paid articleThe Global war on christians
Reynolds, Gabriel Said
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...
Paid articleLevels of Life
Donoghue, Denis
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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Christie, Dolores L.
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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