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 Vol. 148 Issue 005 (May 1 2021)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS Debating Deterrence POMPS & PERILS The subtitle of Bernard Prusak's article "The Paradoxes of Deterrence" (March), "How the debate about nuclear weapons has evolved," gets Prusak's...
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Courage & convictions
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FROM THE EDITORS Courage & Convictions Just what is Joe Biden’s plan for resettling more refugees in the United States? It’s a fair question to ask after a confusing series of statements from the...
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The Chauvin conviction
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Simon, Isabella
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COMMENT Violence in Tigray For the past six months, a humanitarian crisis has been unfolding in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. What began as a dispute between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front...
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Justice Breyer needs to retire
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Sitman, Matthew
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Justice Breyer Needs to Retire Back in the early days of President Obama’s second term, progressive commentators engaged in a fierce debate over how long Ruth Bader Ginsburg should remain on the...
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Letter from the United Kingdom
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Robertson, Felix
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SHORT TAKES FELIX ROBERTSON A Return to Normal? Letter from the United Kingdom On February 22, Prime Minister Boris Johnson presented the long-awaited details of Great Britain’s route out of...
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No more waiting
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Reynolds, Susan Bigelow
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SUSAN BIGELOW REYNOLDS No More Waiting When I got vaccinated, the future suddenly felt tangible. On a warm Saturday morning in mid-March, in a repurposed Walmart employee break room, I am about...
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Biden’s foreign policy
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Bacevich, Andrew
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SHORT TAKES ANDREW BACEVICH Biden's Foreign Policy Delaying the inevitable Can Americans be entrusted with a straightforward explanation of how the United States should adapt to a changing...
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Antigonish activist
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Higgins, Michael W.
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SHORT TAKES MICHAEL W. HIGGINS Antigonish Activist The pragmatic idealism of Fr. Gregory MacLeod In his December 2, 2020, entry for the ecclesial blog Go, Rebuild My House, MyroslawTataryn, a...
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Continuing Conversations: ‘Identity’ & narrative
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Walden, Paul J. Griffiths, Daniel
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CONTINUING CONVERSATIONS 'Identity' & Narrative An exchange on Christianity and transgender people PAUL J. GRIFFITHS I’m glad to have read Daniel Walden’s essay in the March issue of Commonweal,...
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“Wolf Motherâ€
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Cadnum, Michael
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POETRY WOLF MOTHER Michael Cadnum Capitoline Museum, Rome She knows without remembering, alert and peaceful at once, and she will stand as she is, her surface soaking up the light, as long as...
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Life in the Big Zone
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Snyder, Timothy
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ARTICLE The Big Zone Timothy Snyder How a Ukrainian dissident remained free while imprisoned in the Gulag A young man named Myroslav Marynovych was arrested in 1977 for telling the truth about...
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“Midas and Midasâ€
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Cooley, Peter
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POETRY MIDAS AND MIDAS Peter Cooley What did I find in love’s high offices, the lives of saints, the words priests drilled in me? I’ve found more love in parlance of the stones as they ring one...
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Rethinking interfaith dialogue
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Howard, Thomas Albert
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ARTICLE ‘Enough Bromides’ Thomas Albert Howard Rethinking interfaith dialogue Pope Francis’s 2020 encyclical, FrateUi tutti, is remarkable for highlighting St. Francis’s irenic meeting with...
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From princes to managers
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Faggioli, Massimo
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From Princes to Managers Massimo Faggioli The Catholic episcopate is an unstable mixture of the modern and premodern. Understanding its history can help us reform it. The report published by the...
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The militant mysticism of Charles Péguy
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Hanson, Jack
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ARTICLE A Serious Man Jack Hanson The militant mysticism of Charles Péguy Facts only go so far. Just as important as what happened—in historical events, in a single life—is what’s said about...
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“Saint’s Novellaâ€
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Chapman, Danielle
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POETRY SAINT’S NOVELLA Danielle Chapman I saw a rose tree high as the cypresses In a place Pomponius or Saturus had torn Violets all over the grass The rose tree was the brilliant, never-Written...
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‘Grief and Grievance’
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Thompson, Clifford
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ARTS CLIFFORD THOMPSON 'There're People Living Under Here' 'Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America' at the New Museum The word “mourning” makes one think of a funeral. That is often...
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The Five Wounds
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Sayers, Valerie
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BOOKS Hope for Suffering Souls VALERIE SAYERS We Catholics have been bellyaching about the death of the Catholic novel since we invented the category. Before we had fully ingested the required...
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Fake Accounts
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Bacharach, Jacob
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BOOKS What Happens Next? JACOB BACHARACH One of the consolations of literature—and one of its uncanny terrors—is discovering some secret, perverse fantasy, which you had previously imagined to be...
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The Silence
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Christman, Philip
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BOOKS Don DeLillo Frightening Babble PHILIP CHRISTMAN My first thought on finishing Don DeLillo’s The Silence was that it was minor stuff. Bottom-shelf DeLillo. An enjoyable visit with an...
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American Catholics
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Young, Julia G.
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BOOKS Diversity & Division JULIA G. YOUNG By all rights, American Catholics should be in a celebratory mood.The nation’s second Catholic president was inaugurated in January, a majority of...
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Waiting for an Echo
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Jeffreys, Derek S.
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Patients, Not Problems DEREK S. JEFFREYS The coronavirus has devastated the American penal system, with close to four hundred thousand inmates contracting the disease. Desperate to control the...
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Womanpriest
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Holman, Mary Kate
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BOOKS Priesthood, Reimagined MARY KATE HOLMAN In 2002, a group of seven Catholic women gathered on a cruise ship on the Danube River. There, in a ceremony led by three male bishops, outside the...
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Remembering Denis Donoghue
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Domestico, Anthony
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BOOKS ANTHONY DOMESTICO 'Justly Responsive' What made Denis Donoghue a great critic One of the pleasures of subscribing to Commonweal for the past fifteen years has been the knowledge that...
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“Elan Vitalâ€
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Johnson, Luke Timothy
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POETRY ELAN VITAL Luke Timothy Johnson Know that limits are for leaping; are but theorems, lines and brackets drawn imposingly but bare around the past of when and where, and do not...
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“Once Moreâ€
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Leopold, Nikia
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POETRY ONCE MORE Nikia Leopold The full moon rises at the top of our street, a gradual discovery made together settling in. Each month the moon floods the boards of our bedroom floor with...
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Two adoptions
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Gee, Melody S.
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LAST WORD Two Adoptions MELODY S. GEE At nine months old, I was brought from Taiwan to my adoptive parents in Los Angeles. In the photos of us meeting under the glaring LAX terminal lights, it’s...
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Closing Shot
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Shia, Nancy
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CLOSING SHOT A SATURDAY DANCE PARTY Nancy Shia, 1977 I've lived In an apartment on the comer of Columbia Road and Ontario Road In Washington D.C. for forty years. During that time, I've used my...
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