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Columns
Kyle T. Kramer
We should not hold on to living things too tightly.
Poetry
Susan Bucci Mockler

She was from having to learn to read and write

Books
Robert E. Scully
Savonarola: Florence’s improbable prophet
The Word
Peter Feldmeier
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), July 15, 2012
Signs Of the Times
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As the international community looks for ways to protect the environment while promoting development, it must keep the  the protection of human dignity as its central goal.

Signs Of the Times
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Four Irish archbishops told the Vatican that a report on an apostolic visitation to the Pontifical Irish College in Rome contained factual errors.

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Nigeria's Catholic bishops worry as attacks persist against Christians and tensions reach 'dangerous' levels.

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About 400 Christian civilians trapped in the Hamidiyeh and Bustan Diwan neighborhoods of Homs launch a desperate cry for help.

Editorials
The Editors
The criminal justice system has failed to protect child offenders.
Kerry Weber
A Jesuit chaplain brings St. Ignatius to San Quentin.
Letters
Mumble Mass Re “Grading the Missal” (5/28): I am a pastor of a large urban parish. Six months after the introduction of the new translation of the Roman Missal, my all-too-common experience is that, rather than more fully engaging the people in the pews in the celebration of Eucharist, t
Books
Richard Metzger
"The Right-Hand Shore," a new novel by Christopher Tilghman
Signs Of the Times
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The U.S. bishops wondered aloud if they needed professional help to better communicate their message to the American public.

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The White House will halt the deportation of as many as 800,000 young illegal immigrants and in some cases give them work permits.

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The move was opposed by the United States and Israel.

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As protest continue, Fernando Lugo, the bishop-turned-president who was impeached on June 22, announced that he was forming a parallel government.

Editorials
The Editors
The "re-election" of Gov. Scott Walker raises difficult questions about the health of democracy in the United States.
The Board of Directors
Drew Christiansen, S.J., leaving for Georgetown University
Books
John A. Coleman
Robert Wuthnow on faith and politics in the American heartland
Ideas
Jon M. Sweeney

Learning from India's greatest poet