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 Vol. 152 Issue 004 (April 1 2025)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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Houses and homes, church reviews, and good criticism WHY BUY? Jennifer Denbow’s article about the sociology of homeownership (“The Best Investment I Never Made,” February) provides vital...
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From the Editors
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FROM THE EDITORS Crisis Mismanagement In the weeks before he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Manhattan, Mahmoud Khalil wrote to Columbia University officials asking how...
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EPA deregulation
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Simon, Isabella
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Getting the Message Elected officials ducking difficult questions is hardly a new phenomenon. But Republican representatives are now actively avoiding not only difficult questions but any direct...
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Protecting press freedom
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Preziosi, Dominic
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Press On A few years after buying The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos said that “certain institutions have a very important role in making sure that there is light,” an idea...
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Remembering Lawrence Cunningham
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Ruddy, Christopher
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SHORT TAKES CHRISTOPHER RUDDY The Flash Remembering Lawrence
Cunningham His door was always open. Lawrence (known universally as “Larry”) Cunningham, Notre Dame theologian and longtime...
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Letter from Canada
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Boyagoda, Randy
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SHORT TAKES RANDY BOYAGODA We Know What We’re Not Letter from Canada By the time you read this, I might be American. Probably not, but things feel frazzled and uncertain in Canada these...
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Betraying Ukraine
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Connelly, John
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SHORT TAKES President Trump and Vice President Vance berate President Zelensky at the White House, February 28, 2025. JOHN CONNELLY Worse than Chamberlain Why Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine...
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‘Conclave’
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Reilly, Mollie Wilson O’
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MOLLIE WILSON O’REILLY ‘The Church Is What We Do Next’ ‘Conclave’ raises an unexpected challenge. The 2024 film Conclave, which follows the drama of a...
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The 1950 Jubilee
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Cummings, Kathleen Sprows
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SHORT TAKES KATHLEEN SPROWS
CUMMINGS Pilgrims, Presence, and American Power U.S. Catholics & the 1950 Holy Year We don’t yet know how many U.S. Catholics will make a pilgrimage to Rome...
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A symposium on nuclear disarmament
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Hehir, Archbishop John Wester, Raymond J. Juzaitis, Maryann Cusimano Love, J. Bryan
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ARTICLE The Path Toward Disarmament A symposium Archbishop John Wester Raymond J. Juzaitis Maryann Cusimano Love J. Bryan Hehir A First Step
Archbishop John Wester Today we face a...
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Pope Francis’s health
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Ivereigh, Austen
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‘A Complex Picture’ Austen Ivereigh As he recovers from a serious illness, Pope Francis must weigh his options. Four days after Pope Francis was taken to the hospital to be treated for...
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‘Commonweal’ and the Vietnam War
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Steinfels, Peter
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A Rival Magisterium Shaun Blanchard and Richard T. Yoder What today’s traditionalists have in common with the Jansenists In 1826, an old royalist priest in the French countryside wrote his...
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Community-college civics
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Malesic, Jonathan
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ARTICLE Where Politics Is Still Possible Jonathan Malesic To restore your faith in American democracy, visit
a community-college government classroom. Last April, I traveled to Rose State...
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Golden Years by James Chappel
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Quinn, Peter
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BOOKS Coming of Age in America PETER QUINN “The sun himself is weak when he first rises; and gathers strength and courage as the day goes on.” —Charles...
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Opus by Gareth Gore
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Rober, Daniel
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BOOKS C-Suite Clericalism DANIEL ROBER At the University of Notre Dame in the early 2000s, the campus-ministry office distributed fliers around campus chapels warning students against...
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Books in Brief
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BOOKS IN BRIEF “I had been hungry for liturgy all my life,” writes Melody S. Gee in We Carry Smoke & Paper. “I had wanted to know where I belonged and to whom.” The essays in...
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Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
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PRUSAK, BERNARD G.
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BOOKS More, or Else BERNARD G. PRUSAK As much as Trump’s chaos may appall liberals, part of the president’s appeal is that he breaks things. He breaks expectations, norms, even...
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‘The Sum’
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Powell, Jim
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POETRY THE SUM Jim Powell The surface of the water
at the bottom of the well
just before the pebble
touches its reflection, the frame of the moment
without the...
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The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Schiffman, Richard
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BOOKS Gift Ecology RICHARD SCHIFFMAN In order to understand the debt that we owe to the natural world, Robin Wall Kimmerer recommends berry picking, one of humanity’s older and most quietly...
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Gene Hackman
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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CRITIC AT LARGE RAND RICHARDS COOPER Emotional Intelligence An appreciation of Gene Hackman I learned of Gene Hackman’s recent death on the New York Times website, which ran a 1973 photo of...
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‘Anabasis’
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Snook, Christopher
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POETRY ANABASIS AT THE CAR WASH IN NEW MINAS Christopher Snook It was the only way no puddles of blood shed for the shades or shadows like hungry ghosts pressing but the South Asian at the...
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Confession
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Giattino, Anthony
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LAST WORD ‘Mea Maxima Culpa’ ANTHONY GIATTINO I’ve been a special agent with the federal government for more than sixteen years and the lead investigator on many cases. I’ve seen...
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‘413A’
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Solonche, J. R.
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POETRY 413A J. R. Solonche Whatever else may happen to a man on his back for six months, at least he must become an expert on himself. Whatever else may happen to him, at least a man must...
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