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November 17, 2014

Vol. 211 / No. 15

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President John F. Kennedy with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican on July 2, 1963.
Vantage Point
The EditorsNovember 05, 2014

Following the beatification of Pope Paul VI, we reprint this editorial on his life and legacy that originally appeared in America on Aug. 19, 1978.Each pope in the history of the church has brought to the special challenges of his era his own special gifts of intellect and spirit. The hist

Books
Daniel J. MorrisseyNovember 05, 2014

'Six Amendments,' by John Paul Stevens

Arts & Culture Books
David LeighNovember 05, 2014

'F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction,' by John T. Irwin

Books
Catherine CornilleNovember 05, 2014

'Spirituality Seeking Theology,' by Roger Haight, and 'His Hiding Place is Darkness,' by Francis Clooney, S.J.

Art
Karen Sue SmithNovember 05, 2014

The artist’s lively, hope-filled cut-outs

Poetry
Diane SolisNovember 07, 2014

A large cream colored mantiscaptured me todayby a wisp of my hairnear the nape of my neck. I flitted it like a leafthat fell from the aspen treebeneath which I read,not knowing the mystery that found me. Unfazedby my flitting, it regroupedto catch me againby the bridge of my glasses. 

The Word
John W. MartensNovember 05, 2014

The correlation of the roles of king and shepherd precedes even the Old Testament Akkadian Babylonian and Sumerian texts including the Code of Hammurabi all invoke the king as shepherd Clearly this association emerges from the pastoral context of the time when sheep- and goat-herding were cent