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Volume 2 Issue 1
June 2004Robert Blair Kaiser: A Letter from the Editor
BOOKS
Reviewed by Don Foran: A Dying Breed of Brave Men: The Self-Written Stories of Nine Married Priests Edited by Robert J. Brousseau
Reviewed by Doug McFerran: Papal Reich by Arun Pereira
Reviewed by Leonard Swidler: Ignatian Humanism: A Dynamic Spirituality for the Twenty-First Century by Ronald Modras
CHURCH REFORM
Thomas P. Doyle: The John Jay Report and The National Review Board Report
Bruce Russett: Conclusion of Governance, Accountability and the Future of the Catholic Church — Monarchy, Democracy, or "Decent Consultation Hierarchy"?
Leonard Swidler: Desperately Needed: Catholic ‘Americanist’ Heroes — The Model of Bishop John England of CharlestonFEATURED CONTRIBUTORS
Morgan Zo Callahan: Two Zen Dialogues:
Change Your Mind Day — June 7, 2003 — Ciudad de Los Angeles
Distant & Close
Geraldine Glodek: One Day on the Way to the Time Room
Paul Kelly: The Kelly KollectionJESUITS THEN & NOW
Robert Brophy, Don Cordero, Doug McFerran, Robert R. Rahl, Jim Torrens, SJ, and Dave Van Etten : Convocation 2003
Peter Henriot, SJ: Letter from Zambia
Joseph E. Mulligan, SJ: A Faith and Justice Pilgrimage in Rome ... and Related Reflections at Home
LITERARY CRITICISM
Frances A. Della Cava and Madeline H. Engel: Catholics under the Magnifying Glass: Views in American Mystery Fiction
Ramón Rami Porta: El teólogo itinerante: Un comentario sobre Monseñor Quijote de Graham Greene
Ramón Rami Porta: The Itinerant Theologian: A Commentary on Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
Chimera
Robert Bagg
a beast created from parts of other beasts
Over LA a crop duster opens
its wing pods; mist exhales from a briefcase
left hissing in a screeching subway station.
EbólaPox is so ethereal
we'll have no clue a countdown has begun.
It will take us a few infinite days
to die––we’ll blacken as we melt away.
I’ll spare you further symptoms. But terrorists
won’t, nor will their feisty microallies
who gather inside us like a slow motion
nuclear bomb, turning families and friends,
ever widening circles of strangers,
to silent singers, our bodies mouthing
hatred so primal it screams through our flesh.
Robert Bagg has published three books of poetry, including Body Blows: New and Selected Poems (Massachusetts, 1988) and translated seven Greek dramas. His latest translation, The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles, will be published in 2004 by Massachusetts. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Prix de Rome, and an NDEA grant.
Volume 2 Issue 1
June 2004MOVIES
Vittorio Messori: A Passion of Violence and Love
POETRY
Robert Bagg: Chimera
George Keithley: Looking at the Man
Tom Sheehan: We Share A UniversePOLITICS
Edward M. Fashing: WTO Meeting In Cancun, Mexico, October 2003
Robert Blair Kaiser: Holy Words Holy War
Senator Edward M. Kennedy: "Leading This Country to a Perilous Place"
Joseph E. Mulligan, SJ: The Fight for Bread and Justice Goes On in Central America
ROME DIARY
Robert Blair Kaiser:
Latest Chapter
Rome Diary IndexTHEOLOGY
José María Vigil, CMF: La opción por los pobres es opción por la justicia, y no es preferencial: Para un reencuadramiento teologico-sistemático de la OP
José María Vigil, CMF: The Option for the Poor is an Option for Justice, and Not Preferential: A New Theological-Systematic Framework for the Option for the Poor
Leobard D’Souza: There Are Many Mother Teresas
VITAL SPEECHES
Anthony Padovano: The American Catholic Church: Assessing the Past, Discerning the Future
Webpage Editors:
Ingrid H. Shafer, Ph.D.
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Robert R. Rahl
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Posted 22 May 2004
Revised 5 June 2004