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Sep 21, 2023 | 
newstarget.com | Belle Carter |Ethan A. Huff |Laura Harris |Richard Brown
Jacinda Ardern may no longer be Prime Minister of New Zealand, but she was back at the United Nations
continuing her call for international censorship. Ardern is now one of the leading anti-free speech figures in the world and continues to draw support from political and academic establishments. In her latest attack on free speech, Ardern declared free speech as a virtual weapon of war.
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Paul Baumann |Richard Brown |John Rodden |Jennifer Banks
The second speaker was the Southern Baptist minister who ran the prison ministry program. He too spoke of Ed’s remarkable connection with inmates and how much they appreciated his sincerity and authenticity. Those teaching in the ministry program needed to be sponsored by a religious congregation. So, one day at the prison, he asked Ed where he worshiped. Somewhat surprised, Ed responded, “Why, here.
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Jul 2, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Jack Nuelle |Richard Brown |John Rodden |Jennifer Banks
Paul Newman appears as Eddie Felson in a Chicago pool hall in Martin Scorsese’s “The Color of Money” (Touchstone Pictures). I learned to love eight-ball pool early, at the edge of a gleaming Brunswick table in the corner of my great-grandmother’s basement. The table was for adults, and I wasn’t allowed to touch it, but sometimes my grandfather would let me get the balls out. He taught me a rudimentary bridge, how to draw the cue back straight.
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Jun 22, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Helene Stapinski |Richard Brown |John Rodden |Jennifer Banks
To show that St. Joseph’s was not an isolated case, Kenneally cuts between similar Catholic orphanage stories in Canada, Great Britain, and her native Australia, some involving the same order of nuns. But her main subject is St. Joseph’s, whose sheer number of survivors and abuses are sometimes hard to keep track of. A cast of characters at the front of the book would have helped. But as we find in the author’s notes at the back, these stories are just a few of the many Kenneally discovered.
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Jun 22, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Bailey Trela |Richard Brown |John Rodden |Jennifer Banks
When Katharina leaves her job as a typesetter and begins working at a theater company, she catches the eye of a coworker, Vadim. They sleep together, just once, but that’s enough to create an almost insurmountable rift in her relationship with Hans. Both are heartbroken, and tumble into a psychologically dense cycle of forgiveness and punishment. Katharina’s penitence is immediate and somewhat theatrical.
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Jun 15, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Paul Baumann |Richard Brown |John Rodden |Jennifer Banks
Sheed found that movie critics—and he occasionally was one—pretended to an intellectual consistency they rarely practiced. National Review’s John Simon “talks a big game about Art but he is first and foremost an unrelenting and unforgiving moralist. And yet even that line can be crossed. He rather liked Easy Rider, the summa of self-pity.”Of poet Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation, Sheed shrewdly observes, “Beat euphoria fit beautifully into the spiel of the postwar pitchman.
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Jun 15, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Richard Brown |John Rodden |Jennifer Banks |Katherine Lucky
At first glance, John West’s Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery is an unconventional memoir about addiction and the healing power of community. But it also addresses the challenges of belief today, when almost everything—the nation, religious institutions, the environment—appears on the verge of collapse. On this episode, West speaks with associate editor Griffin Oleynick about the paradoxes of autobiographical narrative, grief and loss, and the power of art.
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Jun 8, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Massimo Faggioli |Richard Brown |John Rodden |Jennifer Banks
The document sees the parable of the Good Samaritan as key in understanding our mutual relations in the digital space, and especially in discerning the moral claims of devout people: “The hope is to promote a common reflection about our digital experiences, encouraging both individuals and communities to take a creative and constructive approach that can foster a culture of neighborliness.” It invites us to imagine a different social media, and it even makes a gesture toward engaging with...
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May 31, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Alexander Stern |Richard Brown |John Rodden |Jennifer Banks
Director General Roulet also runs unopposed for the Grand Council of Bern, one example of the close-knit cooperation between the state and industry that is featured throughout the film. When Kropotkin first arrives in town, ostensibly to make a map of the region, he is prevented from crossing a road by two police officers who are helping stage a photo shoot for the factory’s new catalogue.
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May 31, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Jacqui Oesterblad |Richard Brown |John Rodden |Jennifer Banks
Third, without better access to health care, patients have no conscience rights of their own. Health care should always focus on patients. The best defenses of conscience rights for providers should, too: it’s important for patients to be able to choose doctors who align with their values. If a patient wants a procedure that a Catholic hospital can’t provide, that patient has the freedom to go somewhere else.
