Magazine

2009-08-14

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Article

Frank's Map

August 10, 2009

Article

Money for Nothing?

By Bethe Dufresne

August 10, 2009

Foreign Affairs

Article

Profiles in Bigotry

By James P. McCartin

August 10, 2009

Domestic Affairs

U.S. Catholicism

Article

A Face in the Crowd

By Alejandro Anreus

August 10, 2009

Article

Sound & Fury

By Richard Alleva

August 10, 2009

Article

Brooklyn, Bewitched

Valerie Sayers' 2009 short story about Brooklyn baseball

By Valerie Sayers

August 10, 2009

Article

The Cost of Peace

By Joel Hafvenstein

August 10, 2009

Foreign Affairs

Muslim-Christian Relations

Article

Not Bold Enough

In 'Caritas in veritate,' Benedict merely hints at what a charitable economic system would require. In his older work, Ratzinger was much bolder—why not here?

By Gene McCarraher

August 10, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Economics of Charity

Benedict's encyclical makes 5 distinct contributions to the church's social teaching, none of which should be narrowly interpreted for specific political purposes.

By Daniel K. Finn

August 10, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI

Pope John Paul II

Secularism and Modernity

Article

End of Discussion

By Gilbert Meilaender

August 10, 2009

Domestic Affairs

Article

The Breath of Life

August 10, 2009

Article

Pope Benedict XVI writes a lot about both subsidiarity and solidarity, and he writes about them together.

In Defense of Politics

August 10, 2009

U.S. Catholicism

Pope Benedict XVI

Article

Bailouts & stakeholders; the OAS & Cuba

August 10, 2009

Domestic Affairs

Foreign Affairs

Article

The War We Can't Win

By Andrew J. Bacevich

August 5, 2009

Foreign Affairs

Muslim-Christian Relations

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Religion

St. Philip Neri’s Eucharistic Joy

Philip Neri is just the kind of saint we need: a model of lightness of spirit, divine laughter, and extraordinary ordinariness.

May 26, 2023

Culture

Reckoning With Birth

Birth is one of humanity’s most under-explored subjects. Minimizing birth diminishes one of the greatest powers humans have had: the creation of life itself.

By Jennifer Banks

May 26, 2023

Books

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By Katherine Lucky

May 7, 2023

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Commonweal writers reflect on their fathers and fatherhood.

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