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Letters | Integralists & Vatican II

An exchange about integralism; and reader responses about charter schools, chisme, and cystic fibrosis.

By The Editors

December 24, 2020

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Letters | Transparency and transcendence

Readers respond to articles about Democratic politics, U.S. foreign policy, and race in Catholic media, and the magazine honors our retiring poetry editor.

By The Editors

November 23, 2020

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Letters | Stories of sin and redemption

Readers respond to the Flannery O’Connor controversy, the 1619 project, and the attitudes of early American toward executive authority.

By The Editors

October 22, 2020

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Letters | Drinking alone and together

Readers weigh in on rural culture in Jonathan Malesic’s essay, “Drinking Alone,” and the author replies.

By The Editors

October 12, 2020

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Letters | An exchange about the Armenian genocide, pandemic sanctions

An exchange about the Armenian genocide and a reader response to Cuban sanctions in light of the economic strain of the pandemic.

By The Editors

August 26, 2020

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Letters | Responses to Pascal & the Magisterium

Readers respond to the May 2020 article about Blaise Pascal, and the author replies.

By The Editors

July 1, 2020

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Not a Normal Election

By telling Americans in advance that he intends to stay in power regardless of the vote count, Trump implicates his supporters in his actions.

By Timothy Snyder

November 2, 2020

Religion

The Bundist Rabbi

An organized pursuit of justice is both Michael Feinberg’s work and his passion.

By Fran Quigley

January 2, 2021

Religion

‘Worship of a False God’

Fr. Bryan Massingale speaks about why racism persists in America and the Church: because racist policies and structures benefit white people.

By Regina Munch

December 27, 2020

Culture

Her Majesty, His Holiness

How ‘The Crown’ can help us think about the papacy.

By Massimo Faggioli

December 30, 2020

Books

‘A Rhetoric of Elevation’

Barack Obama’s memoir is written with admirable clarity and attention to detail, but is weighed down by its tone.

By Paul Baumann

January 1, 2021

Collections

Fratelli Tutti

A collection of Commonweal’s writing about ‘Fratelli tutti,’ Pope Francis’s most recent papal encyclical, including the symposium from the December 2020 issue.

By The Editors

November 17, 2020