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Catholics Have a Lot to Learn About Islam OF MANY THINGS 106 West 56th Street New York, NY 10019-3803 was dining with a friend in The experts who study terrorism Ph: (212) 581-4640; Fax: (212) 399-3596 Manhattan last week when the tell us that the primary goal of the Subscriptions: (800) 627-9533 www.americamedia.org bomb went off. We were several terrorists is not to inflict maximum facebook.com/americamag I twitter.com/americamag blocks north of the explosion, so we damage, though this they also seek to didn’t physically experience the impact. do, but to induce maximum panic. They PRESIDENT AND EDITOR IN CHIEF Our first indication that something seek to infect the body politic with a Matt Malone, S.J. EXECUTIVE EDITORS was wrong was when the AP bulletins rapidly metastasizing terror, one that Robert C. Collins, S.J., Maurice Timothy Reidy started to light up and buzz cellphones destabilizes and disorients. It is not the MANAGING EDITOR Kerry Weber throughout the restaurant. First a few last attack that does the most damage, LITERARY EDITOR Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. customers, then nearly everyone knew but our fear of the next one. One expert, SENIOR EDITOR AND CHIEF CORRESPONDENT Kevin Clarke what had happened and we started Jonathan White, recently wrote that EDITOR AT LARGE James Martin, S.J. fielding calls and texts from worried modern terrorism “requires responses CREATIVE DIRECTOR Shawn Tripoli relatives and friends who wanted to that emphasize rationality over emotion.” EXECUTIVE EDITOR, AMERICA FIlmS Jeremy Zipple, S.J. know that we were safe. When broadcast That seems about right. Emotional POETRY EDITOR Joseph Hoover, S.J. news caught up with the AP, a bulletin responses to terror are just as likely to ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND VATICAN CORRESPONDENT interrupted the football game on feed the fear as they are to contain it. Gerard O’Connell ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL television and the place fell silent. One Fear also “moves people to become much STRATEGY Sam Sawyer, S.J. bomb had exploded in Manhattan; more polarized in their viewpoints,” ASSOCIATE EDITOR & DIRECTOR OF AUDIENCE perhaps there was a second. Some says Justin Sinclair, a psychologist, for DEVELOpmENT Eric Sundrup, S.J. SENIOR EDITOR Edward W. Schmidt, S.J. injuries, no fatalities. Within 10 minutes it “motivates people to go to further ASSOCIATE EDITORS Ashley McKinless, Olga or so, most of the customers were back lengths to feel safe,” essentially meeting Segura, Robert David Sullivan where they started: enjoying the evening, extremism with extremism. ASSOCIATE EDITOR, FIlm José Dueño, S.J. ASSISTANT EDITOR Joseph McAuley almost as if nothing had happened. Other cities have experienced what ART DIRECTOR Sonja Kodiak Wilder Writing in The New York Times, happened in New York on an even EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FOR DIGITAL MEDIA Arthur Brooks seemed to capture the greater scale. For most of the second Zachary Davis EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Eloise Blondiau sentiment of the crowd: “Thank God no half of the 20th century, London was O’HARE FEllOWS Teresa Donnellan, Nicholas one was killed by the attackers, but this routinely subjected to random acts of Genovese, Wyatt Massey COLUMNISTS Helen Alvaré, John J. Conley, S.J., seems to be becoming the new normal.” terror. Perhaps this is the fate that will Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., James T. Keane, John W. Indeed, Donald J. Trump told us in now befall New York. Perhaps not. But Martens, Bill McGarvey, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, his usual, provocative fashion, “This is this much is clear: London survived the Margot Patterson, Nathan Schneider NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT Michael O’Loughlin something that will happen, perhaps, terror in large part because Londoners REGIONAL CORRESPONDENTS John Carr (Wash- more and more all over the country.” defeated the enemy within. Somehow ington), Anthony Egan, S.J., and Russell Pollitt, S.J. (Johannesburg), Jim McDermott, S.J. (Los (Unless we elect him president was the they were able to defuse the ticking time Angeles), Timothy Padgett (Miami), David Stewart, implication.) For her part, Mrs. Clinton bomb of panic within themselves and S.J. (London), Rhona Tarrant (Dublin), Judith Valente (Chicago) suggested somewhat anemically that we simply kept calm and carried on. There MODERATOR, CATHOLIC BOOK CLUB should work with our allies to combat is a lesson in that history and in ours Kevin Spinale, S.J. the terrorist threat. as well. In 1933, in a time of national EDITOR, THE JESUIT POST Michael Rossmann, S.J. EDITORIAL E-MAIL I take little comfort in either of crisis, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave us [email protected] these reactions, for they both seem the prescription for what ailed us then PUBLISHER AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER tone-deaf to the true threat, which is and even now: “The only thing we have Edward G. 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It is that hour of our national life a leadership of Ryan Richardson, Katy Zhou ADVERTISING CONTACT [email protected]; 212-515- fear that surfaced and made its way frankness and of vigor has met with that 0102 SUBSCRIPTION CONTACT AND ADDITIONAL like a thick and eerie fog through the understanding and support of the people COPIES 1-800-627-9533 REPRINTS: reprints@ americamedia.org restaurant that night. And while the themselves which is essential to victory. vast majority of us will never be killed or And I am convinced that you will again © 2016 America Press Inc. give that support to leadership in these Cover: Republican presidential nominee Donald injured in a terrorist attack, all of us are J. Trump at a church service in Detroit, Mich., touched by the fear that we just might be. critical days.” MATT MALONE, S.J. Sept. 3, 2016. AP Photo/Evan Vucci. Contents www.americamagazine.org VOL. 215 NO. 9, WHOLE NO. 5141 OCTOBER 3, 2016 ARTICLES 13 TRUMP MAKES A PLACE FOR FAITH ‘I owe so much to Christianity,’ the Republican nominee tells supporters. Michael O’Loughlin 18 THE POWER OF THE WORD The enduring value of Catholic media Greg Erlandson 22 REVIVING LIBERAL EDUCATION A new age needs the old tradition. Joseph J. Dunn PHOTO: FOCOLARE/FEDERICO ORTA COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS 13 4 Current Comment 5 Editorial The New Know-Nothings 6 Reply All 8 Signs of the Times 12 Column Writers and Reconcilers James T. Keane 26 Vatican Dispatch The Source of Suffering Gerard O’Connell 27 Faith in Focus Group Therapy Maureen Miller 39 The Word Along the Road John W. Martens 18 BOOKS & CULTURE 29 ART Alma Thomas at the Studio Museum in Harlem OF OTHER THINGS St. Francis in Full BOOKS A Body Broken for a Broken People; America’s War for the Greater Middle East; Doing Good…Says Who? ON THE WEB A new government report calls for reining in religious liberty protections in favor of nondiscrimination statutes for L.G.B.T. people. Plus, Kenneth L. Woodward on the changing place of religion in the United States. More digital highlights on page 16 and at americamagazine.org/webfeature. 29 CURRENT COMMENT and terrorism. And, it is disturbing to note, those who Election Day Spoilers frequently read Catholic publications have on average more Slate plans to tell us on Nov. 8 which presidential candidate unfavorable views of Muslims than those who do not. is ahead, long before the polls close. The website will relay This report should prompt those who work in Catholic projections by VoteCastr, a group of statisticians who media, including America, to examine how we write and use voter turnout in selected precincts to determine, say, talk about Islam. It is important not to downplay the whether Hillary Clinton or Donald J. Trump is leading in atrocities committed by the Islamic State—whose victims Ohio. As early as 6 a.m. on Election Day, these number- are primarily other Muslims. But it is also vital that we not crunchers will project a winner in Colorado based on speak of our Muslim neighbors as if their value depends where absentee ballots are coming from. solely on their being allies or instruments in the fight It is a disconcerting innovation for many who respect against violent extremism. They are, first and foremost, in the civic rituals of Election Day, from the small talk with the words of St. John Paul II, fellow believers “in the same the volunteers at polling stations to the moment when all God, the one God, the living God.” the television networks break their silence to let us know what is in those exit polls. But there is probably no going back. With the right data, the voter turnout model is sound Do Mosquitoes Matter? (these days, elections are more about motivating supporters The spread of the Zika virus, with its tragic effects on than about changing minds), and there is no way to prevent children developing in the womb, has invigorated discussion VoteCastr volunteers from reporting on what they see at about preventing mosquito-borne diseases. In affected areas, polling stations without shredding the First Amendment. mosquito-control measures, like spraying and eliminating Some worry that people will skip voting if the standing water, help to slow their advance. But there are presidential election seems to be over by noon, but there more radical options being considered that would drastically are also legislative races and ballot questions to be decided.
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