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The Vatican Spring?
by Michele Dillon, John L. Esposito, Jeffrey Guhin, Cecelia Lynch, James Martin, SJ, J. Michelle Molina and Sarah Shortall...strands in Catholic thought (a point recently reaffirmed by Benedict). The many legitimation problems confronting the Church today call out for a willfully bold response from Francis. For example, the...
In the Shadow of World Literature 
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Avi Alpert
The contested worlds of world literature
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Avi Alpert
...these insights into his analysis of the conceptual categories employed today in the study of world literature. He argues that across the categories that supposedly divide a Pascale Casanova from...
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Kosher pork
by Charles Gelman...Beit Yosef” (i.e., kosher slaughtered)—you get that only in New York, only at the Associated Supermarket at 4407 Greenpoint Avenue, in Sunnyside, Queens, and only for a few hours today,...
Aggressive prayers, curses, and maledictions
Curses, foiled again and again
by Matt Tomlinson...latter term as follows: “Here’s an example. You say something, [then] it happens. It’s like this, if I should curse you. You will go out today, even if you haven’t...
Religion and natural disaster in Haiti
So close and yet so far
by Cecelia Lynch...France) with a history lesson: not only had Haitian independence provided a potent example of freedom to Simon Bolivar and all of Latin America, but Haiti’s revolution against the French...
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Beck, Falwell and “Christian America”
by John Schmalzbauer...and conservative Protestants. Already, Liberty’s decision has sparked a vigorous debate about the fine points of Mormon theology on Christianity Today‘s Politics Blog. Less obvious are disagreements about the theological...