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The reconfiguration of the American family on a more egalitarian model has not been matched by a reconfiguration of cultural expectations and economic institutions.

Free to Be Fathers?

By Eduardo M. Peñalver

September 4, 2009

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Nature's Cathedrals

If national parks embody political idealism, they can also transmit it. Parks are the "schoolrooms of Americanism"

By Celia Wren

September 4, 2009

Media

Article

War As Narcotic

By Richard Alleva

September 4, 2009

Movies

Article

Do Women Have Souls?

Transformations for women in American society have far outpaced those for women in the church

By Kathleen Sprows Cummings

September 4, 2009

Article

My Chicago Catholic Bubble

By Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

September 4, 2009

Laity

Vatican II

A girl altar server carries Pope Benedict XVI's zucchetto during his visit to St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish in Rome

Article

Passing On the Alb

The Vatican stopped saying no to altar girls just fifteen years ago. But to this day, it has never really said yes.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

September 4, 2009

Article

Brown Out

By Bernard Bergonzi

September 4, 2009

Short Take

Foreign Affairs

Article

Compassionate Liberalism

September 4, 2009

Article

Moving Beyond the Culture Wars

By Cathleen Kaveny

September 4, 2009

Columnists

Bioethics

Article

Always Forward

By The Editors

September 4, 2009

U.S. Catholicism

Women in the Church

Article

'Abortion Neutral'?

By The Editors

September 4, 2009

Article

Iran, papal terminology, fiction

By Admin

September 4, 2009

Fiction

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Muslim-Christian Relations

Pope Benedict XVI

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Politics

Lock Him Up?

Declining to charge Trump for fear of how his supporters might react would concede to him the one thing he’s always wanted: total impunity.

By Griffin Oleynick

August 25, 2022

Religion

Good Samaritans?

If we were to frame abortion in Samaritan terms, the Dobbs decision returns the wrong issue to the states.

By Meghan Sullivan

August 31, 2022

Religion

‘There Will Be Surprises’

Pope Francis’s meetings in Rome bring together cardinals from around the world to discuss Curial reform.

By Joshua J. McElwee

August 30, 2022

Religion

Earnest Desire

Pope Francis’s letter on liturgical formation challenges and affirms the People of God as a whole.

By Rita Ferrone

August 27, 2022

Religion

Maxima Culpa

The Church should respond to the horror of unmarked graves in Canadian residential schools with apologies, not evasions.

By Matt Dinan

July 15, 2021

Culture

The Paradox of Public Scholarship

Public-facing scholarship has become a given for many academics—but at what cost?

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

September 6, 2022

Culture

Only God Could Join Us to God

The poet Michael Robbins and theologian David Bentley Hart on Christianity, Yeats, and growing old

By Michael Robbins & David Bentley Hart

August 30, 2022

Books

Who’s It For?

The question “What makes a story ‘good writing’?” can’t be answered until you know who the story is for.

By Eve Tushnet

August 7, 2022

Collections

Abortion After Dobbs

Commonweal writers discuss what Dobbs is likely to mean for abortion law, American politics, and the challenge of creating a “culture of life” worthy of the name.

By The Editors

August 30, 2022

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