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 Vol. 143 Issue 001 (January 8 2016)
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••Contents••
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LETTERS Arguing about the synod, Johns gospel RESISTING RUDDY Kudos for Commonweal's array of assessments of the Synod on the Family. Above all, Christopher Ruddy's contribution to "Assessing the...
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Normalizing Carnage
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From the Editors Normalizing Carnage In early October a troubled twenty-six-year-old, armed with five handguns and a rifle, opened fire at his community college in Roseburg, Oregon, killing nine...
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Climate Confessional
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dotCOMMONWEAL CLIMATE CONFESSIONAL Rand Richards Cooper Years ago, when I was in my late twenties and living in Washington, D.C., I had a German houseguest for a week, a woman named Irena who was...
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'Eternally Begotten'
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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COLUMNISTS Margaret O'Brien Steinfels ‘Eternally Begotten’ WHERE IS THE SON OF GOD BEFORE BETHLEHEM? Metaphysics. Not a word we ordinarily think of during Christmastide and Epiphany. Yet,...
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Vigilante Injustice
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Kaveny, Cathleen
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Cathleen Kaveny Vigilante Injustice THE RIGHT TO LIFE & THE RULE OF LAW The Friday after Thanksgiving, Robert Lewis Dear killed three people and wounded nine others at a Planned Parenthood...
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Steady Pulse
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Nixon, J. Peter
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SHORT TAKES J. Peter Nixon Steady Pulse OBAMACARE IS WORKING, FOR NOW The fall of 2013 was—to put it mildly—a difficult time for the architects of the Affordable Care Act. The Obama...
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The Divorce
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Ruden, Sarah
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THE DIVORCE In a small way, the foreign residents Are rounded up—the Spartans sit and comb Their hair, watched by the Persians from their tents— Rationing starts—the diplomats go home— But all...
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A World without War
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Cochran, David Carroll
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David Carroll Cochran A World without War WHY IT'S NO FANTASY Last July Pope Francis spoke about the hundredth anniversary of World War I to a crowd gathered for the Angelus in St. Peter’s...
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Matchless
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Hammer, Viva
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ARTICLES Matchless An Observant Jew Searches for Love Viva Hammer I came to America in the hope of a husband, leaving my birthplace and my parents’ loving home ten thousand miles behind. Not a...
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'Lovely in Eyes Not His'
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Wheeler, Edward T.
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‘Lovely in Eyes Not His’ Discovering God's Presence behind Bars Edward T. Wheeler Razor wire has a brightness made equally cruel by sunlight and by floodlights. Prison buildings are...
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Room
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Alleva, Richard
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FILM Richard Alleva Room without a View 'ROOM' Psycho-stalker horror and the quiet drama of family relationships might seem to be incompatible genres, but Emma Donoghue married them successfully...
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A War for the Soul of America
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Horwitz, Paul
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BOOKS Paul Horwitz Class Dismissed A War for the Soul of America A History of the Culture Wars Andrew Hartman University of Chicago Press, $17, 384 pp. In some ways it is a mixed blessing for...
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A Land of Aching Hearts and Among the Ruins
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Young, Robin Darling
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Robin Darling Young A Shattered Mosaic A Land of Aching Hearts The Middle East in the Great War Leila Tarazi Fawaz Harvard University Press, $35, 416 pp. Among the Ruins Syria Past and...
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Out of Ashes
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Gais, Hannah
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Hannah Gais From Carnage to Consensus Out of Ashes A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century Konrad Jarausch Princeton University Press, $39.50, 880 pp. With news headlines continuing...
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Mission Accomplished
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Sederer, Lloyd I.
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LAST WORD Mission Accomplished Lloyd I. Sederer In 2004, my wife and I first visited the magnificent Abbaye Saint-Michel de Frigolet, set in rural Provence, near the Rhone, northwest of...
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Vol. 143 Issue 002 (January 29 2016)
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