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IssueVol. 146 Issue 016 (November 1 2019)
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Paid articleLetters
LETTERS Divorce and remarriage in the early church HALF THE STORY I read David Bentley Hart's most recent contribution to Commonweal ("Divorce, Annulment & Communion," September) with a mixture...
Paid articleImporting censorship
FROM THE EDITORS Importing Censorship Though "NBA" stands for "National Basketball Association," professional basketball is proudly, and very profitably, international. Unlike American football,...
Paid articleMaking the rich pay
Sitman, Matthew
COMMENT The Housing Crisis for Teachers As of today, public-school teachers in forty-nine of the fifty largest U.S. metropolitan areas cannot afford to live where they work. That's because they...
Paid articleCruelty at the border
Oleynick, Griffin
COMMENT Cruelty at the Border The first time I saw it was from the window of a bus. The rusted steel wall cuts into the side of a mountain before descending into a valley, where it winds along the...
Paid articleHow impeachment may unfold
Steinfels, Margaret O’Brien
COLUMNS MARGARET O'BRIEN STEINFELS Truth & Consequences If Trump is impeached, will he be removed from office? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's slow walk to an "impeachment inquiry" rested on the...
Paid articleItaly’s new odd couple
Faggioli, Massimo
MASSIMO FAGGIOLI Italy's New Odd Couple Can the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party stave off Matteo Salvini? This past summer the term gov-erno balneare, "beach-time government," took on...
Paid articleSex abuse & double standards
Frankovich, Nicholas
SHORT TAKES NICHOLAS FRANKOVICH Benefit of the Doubt? Brett Kavanaugh & clerical sex abuse Two national news stories about sexual abuse coincided late last year. On August 14, 2018, the grand...
Paid articleNationalism without idolatry
Jakelić, Slavica
SHORT TAKES SLAVICA JAKELIC Nationalism without Idolatry How Christians can purify their civic attachments While Francis's papacy so far has emphasized a pastoral approach to moral and...
Paid articleSweden & the cost of equality
Foley-Keene, Max
SHORT TAKES MAX FOLEY-KEENE Equality Isn't Cheap What the American left can learn from the Nordic model From the "welfare-reform" efforts of the 1990s to the strictly income-dependent benefits...
Paid articleNewman’s canonization
Ivereigh, Austen
SHORT TAKES AUSTEN IVEREIGH St. John Henry Newman A man of his time, a saint for ours To meet Ignatius Harrison, the Oratorian tasked with promoting the canonization cause of John Henry...
Paid articleFanny Howe’s poetry of bewilderment
Domestico, Anthony
ARTICLE Saying the Unsayable Anthony Domestico Fanny Howe's poetry of bewilderment Every year or so, we're gravely informed of the death of Catholic literature: how there aren't any Catholic...
Paid articleExcerpt from “The First Church”
Howe, Fanny
POETRY From "The First Church" by Fanny Howe One dawn I crawled out of the gutter Into the public: just a woman in tears. A group of children was snoozing nearby. Don't wake us up! They cried...
Paid articleWhat do we mean by ‘religion’?
Miles, Jack
ARTICLE What do we mean by 'religion'? The Paradox of Pluralism Jack Miles Gods here? Who can know? Not I. Yet I sigh and tears flow tear on tear. —Saigyo Hoshi (1118-1190) on visiting the...
Paid articleThe ethics of harm reduction
PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
ARTICLE The ethics of harm reduction & the Church of Safe Injection Start with Safe Bernard G. Prusak Jesse Harvey describes himself as "in recovery." He has been involuntarily committed five...
Paid articleKen Burns
Stangler, Cole
INTERVIEW An interview with Ken Burns Emotional Archaeology Cole Stangler Ken Burns's new documentary, Country Music, premiered on PBS on September 15. Over the course of eight episodes spanning...
Paid article‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice’ & ‘Judy’
Cooper, Rand Richards
SCREEN RAND RICHARDS COOPER Different Drums 'Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice' & 'Judy' Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice documents the career of a singer who burst onto the popular...
Paid articleBaron Wenkheim’s Homecoming
Griffiths, Paul J.
BOOKS The Way Life Comes at Us PAUL J. GRIFFITHS BARON WENCKHEIM'S HOMECOMING LASZLO KRASZNAHORKAI TRANSLATED BY OTTILIE MULZET New Directions, $29.95, 576 pp. Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a...
Paid articleBeaten Down, Worked Up
McCartin, Joseph A.
BOOKS From Squeeze to Stranglehold JOSEPH A. MCCARTIN BEATEN DOWN, WORKED UP The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor STEVEN GREENHOUSE Knopf, $27.95, 416 pp. No writer is better...
Paid articleYear of the Monkey by Patti Smith
Mesmer, Sharon
BOOKS She Can Do Anything SHARON MESMER YEAR OF THE MONKEY PATTI SMITH Knopf, $24.95, 192 pp. 2016 was a fabulous year. I'm using "fabulous" in the archaic sense of "known through fable."...
Paid articleThe Scandal of the Century and Other
Addington, Catherine
BOOKS Unmagical Realism CATHERINE ADDINGTON THE SCANDAL OF THE CENTURY AND OTHER WRITINGS GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, TRANSLATED BY ANNE MCLEAN, EDITED BY CRISTOBAL PERA Knopf, $27.95, 336...
Paid articleThe Risk of Education by Luigi Giussani
Hochschild, Joshua P.
BOOKS Adventures in Learning JOSHUA P. HOCHSCHILD THE RISK OF EDUCATION Discovering Our Ultimate Destiny LUIGI GIUSSANI TRANSLATED BY MARIANGELA SULLIVAN McGill-Queen's University Press,...
Paid article“Autumn, Starting from Littlemore”
Kirby, Mark
POETRY AUTUMN, STARTING FROM LITTLEMORE Mark Kirby Before the fire before the coming darkness, the feast: the donning & shedding of vestments: the happy funeral of autumn, the wine-gold sun...
Paid articleMasada by Jodi Magness
Leonard-Fleckman, Mahri
BOOKS Ask the Dust MAHRI LEONARD-FLECKMAN MASADA From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth JODI MAGNESS Princeton University Press, $29.95, 312 pp. Masada is one of the most important archaeological...
Paid articleConspiracies of Conspiracies
Hammer, Chris
BOOKS Wheels within Wheels CHRIS HAMMER CONSPIRACIES OF CONSPIRACIES How Delusions Have Overrun America THOMAS MILAN KONDA University of Chicago Press, $30, 432 pp. We live in an era of...
Paid articleGood Things Out of Nazareth
Sayers, Valerie
BOOKS That Familiar Voice VALERIE SAYERS GOOD THINGS OUT OF NAZARETH The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Friends EDITED BY BENJAMIN B. ALEXANDER Convergent Books, $26, 416 pp. n...
Paid articleA peace church
Cornell, Tom
LAST WORD A Peace Church TOM CORNELL n 1963, Pope John XXII wrote in Pacem in terris, "In our time, which prides itself in its atomic weapons, it is contrary to reason to hold that war is any...
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