Thursday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Tom Long on yet another expectation placed on today's church leaders, predicting the future: "The 1939 World's Fair's vision was whipped to a froth through wishful thinking. Church leaders should probe the future with more humility."

• Miho Nonaka reviews Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, whose "sassy poems are born of her deeply Catholic imagination. She builds a house of saints, canonized or not."

• Steve Thorngate on public housing

• Ryan Dueck on why we use ellipses

In the news:

• Who's funding the Catholic bishops' religious freedom campaign?
• Southern Baptists elect Fred Luter as first black president
• Interfaith leaders fast to protest solitary confinement