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As Ignacio Echániz, would, with the aid of Faber and several LITERARY EDITOR Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. a Spanish Jesuit, has observed, Xavier other companions, found the Society SENIOR EDITOR AND CHIEF CORRESPONDENT Kevin Clarke and Faber “had surely heard about this of Jesus—what one historian has called EDITOR AT LARGE James Martin, S.J. interesting character. It was widely “the most vibrant, most provocative CREATIVE DIRECTOR Shawn Tripoli known that he was from the nobility religious order the Catholic Church EXECUTIVE EDITOR, AMERICA FIlmS of Guipúzcoa, that he had a conversion has ever produced.” It is all the more Jeremy Zipple, S.J. POETRY EDITOR Joseph Hoover, S.J. experience and that he had run afoul remarkable when one considers that the ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND VATICAN CORRESPONDENT of the Spanish Inquisition. Above all, Basques were better known for their Gerard O’Connell ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL everyone spoke of how, after a thirty- worldly adventures than their saintly STRATEGY Sam Sawyer, S.J. day retreat made under him, three virtues. “They were especially prized,” ASSOCIATE EDITOR & DIRECTOR OF AUDIENCE Spanish students from the University according to Mary Purcell, “as soldiers, DEVELOpmENT Eric Sundrup, S.J. SENIOR EDITOR Edward W. Schmidt, S.J. shepherds, seafarers and administrators, distributed their goods to the poor, took ASSOCIATE EDITORS Ashley McKinless, Olga up residence in the hospice of Saint- and widely despised as brawlers and Segura, Robert David Sullivan Jacques and earned their keep by begging ruffians.” Ignatius was no exception. He ASSOCIATE EDITOR, FIlm José Dueño, S.J. SSISTANT DITOR Joseph McAuley for alms. This caused a big sensation, and tells us in his autobiography (referring to A E ART DIRECTOR Sonja Kodiak Wilder friends of the trio rushed to the hospice himself in the third person) that “up to EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FOR DIGITAL MEDIA and forcibly dragged them out. Pedro his thirtieth year he was a man given to Zachary Davis Ortiz, the Dominican Master at the worldly vanities, and having a vain and EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Eloise Blondiau O’HARE FEllOWS Teresa Donnellan, Nicholas University, was particularly annoyed by overpowering desire to gain renown, he Genovese, Wyatt Massey these events.” found special delight in the exercise of COLUMNISTS Helen Alvaré, John J. Conley, S.J., Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., James T. Keane, John W. Ignatius was cleared of the charges arms.” Martens, Bill McGarvey, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, by the Inquisition, but the effects of What is the point of this trip down Margot Patterson, Nathan Schneider ATIONAL ORRESPONDENT Michael O’Loughlin these bizarre happenings lingered, and the Jesuits’ memory lane? Well for one N C REGIONAL CORRESPONDENTS John Carr (Wash- both Xavier and Faber were reminded thing, on Nov. 5 we will celebrate, as we ington), Anthony Egan, S.J., and Russell Pollitt, S.J. (Johannesburg), Jim McDermott, S.J. (Los of them every time they saw Ignatius do each year, the feast of all the saints Angeles), Timothy Padgett (Miami), David Stewart, limping to and from class. As they got and blesseds of the Society of Jesus, an S.J. (London), Rhona Tarrant (Dublin), Judith Valente (Chicago) to know one another, Ignatius would impressive company of men in which MODERATOR, CATHOLIC BOOK CLUB have told his new roommates that he Ignatius and Xavier occupy pride of Kevin Spinale, S.J. acquired his distinctive gait several place. It is important to remember that EDITOR, THE JESUIT POST Michael Rossmann, S.J. EDITORIAL E-MAIL years earlier during a series of botched none of these men started life as a saint, [email protected] attempts to correct the damage done by but that they grew slowly in holiness PUBLISHER AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER a cannonball at the Battle of Pamplona. only after much struggle, only by the Edward G. Spallone DEPUTY PUBLISHER This would have been an awkward patient grace of God. For folks like Rosa M. Del Saz VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT Daniel Pawlus ADVERTISING moment for the roomies. Though me, sinners who are called by God to SALES MANAGER Chris Keller ADVANCEMENT Ignatius and Xavier were both Basque, serve, that is very reassuring. But here’s COORDINATOR Timothy Bouffard PROGRAMS AND EVENTS COORDINATOR Nicholas Sawicki their families were allied to opposing another reason: Just three days after BUSINESS OPERATIONS STAFF Glenda Castro, camps in the never-ending struggle to that feast, we will hold a presidential Ryan Richardson, Anastasia Buraminskaya ADVERTISING CONTACT ads@americamedia. determine the destiny of what is now election. It will be worth remembering org; 212-515-0102 SUBSCRIPTION CONTACT AND northern Spain. What’s more, Xavier’s that even those who have fought on ADDITIONAL COPIES 1-800-627-9533 REPRINTS: brother, as Ignatius surely knew, fought opposite sides of the fiercest battle can, [email protected] on the opposing side at the Battle of with the aid of grace, come together and © 2016 America Press Inc. Pamplona. If we can let our historical do great things for the common good. imaginations take flight for a moment, MATT MALONE, S.J. Cover: iStockphoto.com/Sascha Burkard Contents www.americamagazine.org VOL. 215 NO. 15, WHOLE NO. 5146 NOVEMBER 7, 2016 ARTICLES 14 REMEDIES BEYOND REACH Making affordable medicine a human right Fran Quigley 19 CALM AFTER THE STORM Looking for peace after destruction Daniel Polish COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS 4 Current Comment 5 Editorial “Unjust Discrimination” 14 6 Reply All 8 Signs of the Times 12 Washington Front Value-Free Politics John Carr 22 Vatican Dispatch On Board With Peter Gerard O’Connell 25 Faith in Focus The Women of Baylor Kelly Donnelly 39 The Word Get to Work John W. Martens 19 BOOKS & CULTURE 27 FALL BOOKS 2 Conclave; Last Priest Standing; ISIS; Black Flags; The Dirty War on Syria; Eyes on the Street; Spiritual and Religious OF OTHER THINGS The Enemies of Empathy TELEVISION “The Good Place" ON THE WEB America asks pro-life millennial women about the state of the abortion debate in the United States. Plus, an interview with cardinal-designate Archbishop Joseph Tobin. Full digital highlights on page 29 and at americamagazine.org. 27 CURRENT COMMENT to himself and made some friends, including an immigrant To Our Shame from Peru and the only Orthodox Jew at the school. The United States strives to both honor and assist our When his internet alter ego was revealed in 2011, wounded veterans; but how do we treat our enemies? classmates felt betrayed and disgusted. But Matthew One of the most unfortunate legacies of modern warfare Stevenson decided ostracizing his friend would accomplish is post-traumatic stress disorder: the cumulative, nothing; instead, he invited Mr. Black to Shabbat dinner. painful psychological damage that lingers tenaciously Over Friday meals and a contentious email thread, the in its embattled victims for years. Its symptoms include Shabbat crew questioned and challenged Mr. Black, disorientation, anxiety, memory loss, nightmares and who reconsidered the views he was brought up with and pounding headaches. Recent research by The New York formally renounced white nationalism in 2013. Times reveals that the United States, in its torture of Hate-hardened hearts are rarely won over in Twitter at least 39 prisoners at nine C.I.A. “black sites” and wars. But what Mr. Stevenson understood, and what our Guantánamo Bay, has rendered at least half of them Catholic faith tells us, is that while some ideas—anti- psychologically impaired. Semitism and racism chief among them—are irredeemable, Interrogators stripped the inmates naked, knocked or no person is beyond redemption. threw them against walls, suspended them from ceilings, blasted them with rock music and rolled them in their own Stand by Taiwan excrement. According to Hussein Al-Marfadi, released Cross-strait trade is down almost 10 percent, and tensions without charges after 12 years, “They killed our youth in are way up between mainland China and Taiwan. Despite Guantánamo and then tossed us away like garbage.” Omar its functional independence, Taiwan is still regarded in Khadr, a Canadian citizen, wounded and caught after a Beijing as a renegade province, and relations between firefight at age 15, was kept sleepless and threatened with China’s President Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s first woman rape until he pleaded guilty to throwing a hand grenade leader, President Tsai Ing-wen, have been especially frosty that killed a medic in Afghanistan. since her election in May. Beijing complains that she failed These details should shame all Americans. Torture is to acknowledge explicitly the “1992 consensus” reached both immoral and a violation of international law. Use of between the Chinese Communist Party and Taiwan’s these tactics is an incentive for our enemies to commit the Kuomintang.