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December 4, 2015

v.142 n.19

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False Friends

To understand how Islamic extremism grew, one must consider Washington’s decades-long military support to Pakistan, and its protection of the Saudi Arabian monarchy.

November 30, 2015

Muslim-Christian Relations

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Keeping the Books

In bed, before falling asleep, I say goodnight to Dad as I mark my place in my book. He is everywhere I am, as long as I’m reading.

By Jo McGowan

November 23, 2015

Books

Columnists

Death and Dying

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'Chaplains'

By focusing on cultural and institutional microcosms, a documentary paints a picture of an entire society whose various activities are all embedded with chaplains.

By Celia Wren

November 23, 2015

Media

Religious Life

Television

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Catching Up & Passing On

Current students are taught by lay people. Our teachers were Benedictine monks, and teaching only begins to describe the role those virtuous men played in our lives.

By Andrew J. Bacevich

November 23, 2015

Secularism and Modernity

Short Take

Spirituality

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Last Word: Kids in the Kingdom

My liturgical tastes used to tend toward the simple, but they’ve recently turned toward the chaotic.

By Scott D. Moringiello

November 23, 2015

U.S. Catholicism

Spirituality

The Last Word

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Mispricing Risk

If Janet Yellen decides to solve the problem of low lending interest by raising rates, does this benefit banks, government, hedge-fund managers, or the rest of us?

November 23, 2015

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Letters | Mortal sin, Celibacy, Sci-fi parody, Etc.

By The Editors

November 23, 2015

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Poem | When I Am a Middle-Aged Woman

I will wear sweatshirts with bright appliqués / Of owls, and work for Head Start. Saturdays // Will be the food bank; Sundays, church at ten. / Evenings I'll...

By Sarah Ruden

November 23, 2015

Poetry

Spirituality

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Poem | The Old Wall

Arch after arch set in the brick, / Rosettes along them, pebble-thick; // Draped, helmed, armed figures, scribes with scrolls, / And eagles in their leafy holes:...

By Sarah Ruden

November 23, 2015

Poetry

Spirituality

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Poem | Untitled

By Fabio Morábito

November 23, 2015

Poetry

Spirituality

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Mediterranean Travels

Historical reminders of how the Mediterranean connects Europe, Asia, and Africa at least as often as it separates the three continents from one another.

By Ingrid D. Rowland

November 19, 2015

Books

Article

Conversation Starters

Reasoning with rants, processing trauma through painting, and Tweeting with the pontiff: Maybe there's a long German word to capture the experience?

By Michael Peppard

November 19, 2015

Books

Article

Not Just for Kids

Girlhoods, boyhoods, childhoods, "freindships": Youth is the setting (and subject) in works by Jane Austen, J.M. Coetzee, Michael Ondaatje, and Leo Tolstoy.

By Sarah Ruden

November 19, 2015

Books

Article

Thinking Hard About History, and About Being Human

These books offer two rewards: a lot of fascinating information, and an opportunity to think hard about history and being human. But they prompt some questions too.

By Thomas Noble

November 19, 2015

Books

Article

A Spiritual Work, a Saint, a Jumpstart for Prayer

I’m not sure if it’s a sign of spiritual progress or regression, but these days on retreat, in between prayer periods, I allow myself to read.

By James Martin

November 19, 2015

Books

Article

Lights in the Firmament

The case for "youthful credulity" when reading; Don DeLillo's moral but discomforting vision; a new translation of Julian of Norwich's 'Revelations of Divine Love.'

By Cassandra Nelson

November 19, 2015

Books

Article

Close to the Madding Crowd

A biographical novel for Thomas Hardy fans; a theory on how Christianity came to dominate Europe; short poems; and the fascinating (true) tale of a house in Germany.

By David Lodge

November 19, 2015

Books

Article

After Paris

How to remove ISIS is a puzzle whose solution will require resolve, patience, and international cooperation. For the United States to act alone would be a mistake.

By The Editors

November 17, 2015

Muslim-Christian Relations

Terrorism

War and Peace

Article

Still a Church of Surprises

So this, I realized as I watched, was still a church of surprises. Vatican II lived on. A weight accumulated over thirty-five years dropped from from my shoulders.

November 17, 2015

Secularism and Modernity

Theology

Article

Unforced Errors?

Process, papacy, and accompaniment: It may not be too early to wonder how Pope Francis's handling of the Synod on the Family fared on these three considerations.

November 9, 2015

Article

Let's Talk About Authority

Francis has introduced the possibility that the spotlight of moral judgment can can be shone back on those who make the judgments, and on their very act of judging.

By Karen Kilby

November 5, 2015

Secularism and Modernity

Sexuality

Theology

Article

Conspiracy of the Faithful

John Henry Newman once said of the laity that the church would look foolish without them, and from the beginning the synod did indeed look foolish without us.

November 2, 2015

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'Just a Revelation'

Aside from restatements of the teaching on sexual morality, there were glimpses of how a spirituality of discernment could infuse the church in its mission of mercy.

October 30, 2015

Article

The Opening of the Canadian Mind?

The election of Justin Trudeau resoundingly closes what many observers view as a dismal era in modern Canadian politics personified by conservative Stephen Harper.

By Michael W. Higgins

October 26, 2015

Foreign Affairs

Web Exclusive

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Invisible Man

Politicians and pundits regularly misapply Smith’s most famous metaphor, turning the “invisible hand” into an embodiment of the virtues of an unfettered market.

By Edward D. Kleinbard

November 10, 2014

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Economy

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