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August 28, 2006

Vol. 195 / No. 5

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Arts & Culture Books
Gloria L. SchaabAugust 28, 2006

In his poem God rsquo s Grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins calls it the dearest freshness deep down things and in his Book of Pilgrimage Rainer Maria Rilke refers to it as the deep innerness of all things What each poet strives to capture in words is the heart of matter beyond appearance that essen

Arts & Culture Books
Thomas J. MassaroAugust 28, 2006

Can anyone seriously doubt that sustained reflection on the topic of peacemaking is among the most urgent tasks facing humankind In the wake of the bloodiest century in history the Christian community has a solemn obligation to share with the wider human society whatever insights it can glean from

Film
Jim McDermottAugust 28, 2006

March of the Penguins quietly took mainstream America by storm last year with its surprisingly dramatic story of emperor penguins in Antarctica. The documentary film was both a critical and a box-office success, winning an Academy Award and grossing $122.6 million worldwide. Several other documentar

The Word
Daniel J. HarringtonAugust 28, 2006

The only formal definition of religion in the Bible appears in today rsquo s reading from James It is not an exhaustive or comprehensive definition But it does provide a starting point for reflecting on what the biblical tradition understands to be true religion The first characteristic of true re

The Word
Daniel J. HarringtonAugust 28, 2006

Among the New Testament writings the Letter of James is important for its emphasis on social justice By social justice I mean how we find our way among the various social ethnic economic gender and political realities that shape our lives When this letter was written there were probably only a

Columns
John F. KavanaughAugust 28, 2006

As Labor Day approached, a sublimely ironic drama was being played out on Capitol Hill. At the end of July, the U.S. House of Representatives finally passed a bill that would raise the minimum wage, over the next couple of years and with no provision for future inflation, from $5.15 to a kingly $7.2

Culture
Justus George LawlerAugust 28, 2006

Winston Churchill launched Operation Gomorrah, ordering high-explosive and incendiary bombs to be dropped on the city of Hamburg on July 24, 1943. Five days later more than 50,000 civilians were dead. Two-and-a-half years later, the city of Dresden, crowded with refugees and of little strategic impo