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Cloudy Crystal Ball

Patrick Jordan

A review of John Allen's new book 'Future Church: How Ten Trends Are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church'
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Coup Concluded

Robert E. White

A former ambassador to El Salvador & Paraguay on what's next for Honduras
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The Coming Health-care Rollout

E. J. Dionne Jr.

The next health-care fight has already started.
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Commonweal Internship Program

We are seeking promising students and recent graduates for spring and summer 2010.
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OCTOBER 23, 2009

Stimulate

The Editors

Meeting the nation’s long-term obligations won’t be possible without a stable economy.

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Catching Fire

Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

A review of Mary Karr’s new memoir, Lit.

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An Eternal Now

Leo J. O’Donovan

A review of the Vermeer exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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OCTOBER 9, 2009

Cross Examination

Sister X

"To put it bluntly, I feel that American women religious are being bullied."

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One in Six

The Editors

That’s the number of people who will starve this year—more than ever before.

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America’s Blind Spot

Daniel Callahan

Why doesn’t the common good enter into our national health-care debate?

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

Bloody Errands

Rand Richards Cooper

A review of the films ’The Baader Meinhof Complex’ and ’The English Surgeon’

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The Crisis of Liberal Catholicism

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels

From our 75th anniversary symposium, articles by Peter Steinfels, Cardinal George & others

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Homosexuality & the Church

Eve Tushnet and Luke Timothy Johnson

Negotiating the authority of Scripture, tradition & experience.

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Why I Became Catholic

John Wilkins

A child of the council explains why he feels like an orphan.

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Culture & Barbarism

Terry Eagleton

Civilization & its discontents

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How Is the Bible True?

Luke Timothy Johnson

Bible readers, especially Americans, look for truth in all the wrong places.

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The War We Can’t Win

Andrew J. Bacevich

What is it about Afghanistan, possessing next to nothing that the United States requires, that justifies such lavish attention?

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I Am Awake

Alice McDermott

A new short story by the National Book Award-winning author of ’Charming Billy’

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My Chicago Catholic Bubble

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels

How I became an adult Catholic

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Why Are We There?

The Editors

President Obama must do a better job of explaining our mission in Afghanistan.

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