Thursday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Suzanne Guthrie on the "bovine offices": "Sister Carol Bernice told me once that when she milks the cows she whispers 'Yah-weh' as she alternates hands milking the teats." (subscription required)

• John Lynch reviews Kenneth Serbin's history of religion in Latin America (subscription required)

• David Heim on Lincoln and political dealmaking

• Carol Howard Merritt talks to Diana Butler Bass

• Lou Carlozo briefly reviews the Steel Wheels

In the news:

• For Petraeus, echoes of that other warrior David
• Pope Benedict XVI faces uphill challenge in trying to resurrect Latin
• St. Dorothy Day? Controversial, yes, but bishops push for canonization