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  • Faith in Politics0

    Henry David Thoreau once remarked on the "great flapping ear" of the American public wanting to know everything about everything. And, in spite of the elephantine imagery he seemed to use, the contemporary curiosity crosses all party lines. Yet, at times that curiosity, while insatiable, is a little like an internet search engine let loose

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  • A Complex Relationship0

    By Mario M. Cuomo, Harold Holzer, historical consultant, Harcourt, 183 pp., $24.00 Reviewed by Charles J. Eusey. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as governor of New York, told a newspaperman that one of his goals was for "us Democrats to claim Lincoln as one of our own." A more recent governor of New York, Mario M. Cuomo,

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  • Voting as a Matter of Faith0

    The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, ushered religion into the center of American politics. In the three years since, President George W. Bush and his administration have made sure it stayed there. And then earlier this year the Catholic Church turned the relationship between faith and politics into a campaign issue. Civil religion is

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  • Bishop to Knight? — Checkmate or Camelot?0

    Eugene Kennedy recalls the New York parish of his childhood, a place where men well-known as gangland bosses walked the streets. Not once, said the man who would grow up to become a priest and confidant to the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, does he remember his church denying those murderous thugs Communion. So

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  • When 2 + 2 = 50

    In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift wrote about the long war between "the two great empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu" over which end of an egg should be broken, the big or the little one. According to earliest historical accounts, when the grandfather of Lilliput's present king broke open an egg in the traditional manner, that

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  • Iraq Diary0

    As we drove through the Iraqi countryside, I sat in the backseat of the SUV looking out the window in amazement at the pastoral scenes passing before me. With my teammates, Otto and Deanna, I had just crossed from the Turkish border into what is known as the Kurdistan area of Iraq. We were a

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