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  SEPTEMBER 2020 COMMONWEAL FROM THE EDITORS Voting as an act of faith COMMENT HEROES & cheapskates (Regina Munch) Beirut’s agony (Griffin Oleynick) Mosque or museum? (George E. Demacopoulos)   COLUMN John Paul II on social sin(Rita Ferrone) SHORT TAKES The “canceling” of Flannery O’Connor? (Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Cathleen Kaveny) Federal immigration officers in Portland (Paul Moses) Poland’s complacent majority (Piotr H. Kosick)i The unrevised Ephrem (Joseph Amar)  ARTICLES   Protest and reform in Chile (Santiago Ramos, Joseph S. Flipper) Religion in American politics (Kenneth L. Woodward) Why the Left must work with liberals (James T. Kloppenberg)  INTERVIEW   Louise Erdrich with Anthony Domestico  SCREEN   ‘Hunters’ & ‘Come and See’ (Robert Rubsam) BOOKS   Lost in Thought by Zena Hitz (Reviewed by Charles McNamara) American Prophets by Jack Jenkins    (Reviewed by Kaya Oakes) Catholic Social Teaching edited by Gerard V. Bradley and E. Christian Brugger (Reviewed by Bernard

In early July, The Pew Research organization did a study of worship during the pandemic. For full lengthy report see here:    Pew Study of Worship During the Pandemic Pew Research Center conducted this survey to help understand how the coronavirus outbreak has impacted the worship habits of Americans. They surveyed 10,211 U.S. adults from July 13 to 19, 2020. All respondents are part of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel recruited through national random sampling of residential addresses. Thus Pew had data from last year on these same respondents. Of people who had said in the 2019 survey that they attend religious services at least once a month, most (91%) indicated that their congregations were closed entirely during April. Most also reported their congregations open in July including 55% who said their congregations were open with certain coronavirus-related modifications in place and 6% who said their congregation were open and operating norma