What hath Phil wrought? – talk show host Phil Donahue – Column
Frank McConnell
Phil Donahue, he says, is retiring. This will be his …
Category: Commonweal
A MAJOR MINOR POET: Billy Collins isn’t just funny – poet laureate
Richard Alleva
Billy Collins being named poet laureate was good …
The Origins of Christian Morality: The First Two Centuries
Lawrence S. Cunningham
The First Urban Christians (1983) by Yale’s Wayne …
Court-assisted suicide – appellate court’s ruling on Washington state physician-assisted suicide law – Editorial
There is “a constitutiona…
The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age
Eugene McCarraher
Lawrence Grossman Viking, $24.95, 290 pp.
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Going bananas – reaction in Germany to European Union rules on bananas
John Rodden
Who would have ever thought the biggest trade iss…
The reconciliation of unbelief – reaction to a friend’s AIDS-related death – Cover Story
Alane Salierno Mason
There are only a few a…
Electra – Review
Celia Wren
The new Broadway Electra is a heroine with an attitude. Mourning for her father, King Agamemnon of Myce…
Soldiers of Christ: Saints and Saints’ Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. – book reviews
Lawrence S. Cunningham
Pe…
Who’s driving: the market’s dilemma – stock market
William Pfaff
The proposition that the stock market will keep going up because t…