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CACG Must Reads - December 22, 2011

The editors at Commonweal weigh in on the issue of conscience exemptions:

http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/illiberal-mandate

 

At America, the editors reflect on the Christmas:

http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=13181

 

Tom Malinowski, DC director of Human Rights Watch, on the catastrophe that is North Korea:

http://www.tnr.com/article/world/98753/north-korea-isolation-death-legitimacy

 

John Allen, at the National Catholic Reporter, in the new Archbishop of Manila:

http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/vatican-ok-manila-leader-despite-link-vatican-ii-school

 

Also at NCR, Michael Sean Winters reflects on the end of the U.S. involvement in Iraq:

http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/iraq-war

 

As does America editor Father Drew Christiansen, S.J. at the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/what-iraq-taught-us-about-just-war/2011/12/18/gIQAsGED3O_blog.html