Magazine

2009-02-13

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Miscommunication

The uproar following Benedict XVI’s decision to lift the excommunication of certain Holocaust-denying bishops seemed predictable to everyone but the pope himself.

By The Editors

March 4, 2010

Editorial

Jewish-Christian Relations

Pope Benedict XVI

Article

John Updike, RIP

By The Editors

March 4, 2010

Editorial

Article

A New Day

By Don Wycliff

February 9, 2009

The Last Word

Article

Temple or Memorial?

By Celia Wren

February 9, 2009

Media

Article

Half Right

By Jim Sleeper

February 9, 2009

Books

Article

Frankie's Secret

By Peter Quinn

February 9, 2009

Foreign Affairs

Article

A Good Exchange Rate

By Tom Quigley

February 9, 2009

Short Take

Foreign Affairs

Article

Kmiec, Bush, Rock & more

By Admin

February 9, 2009

Letters

Article

Outwitting Cancer

By Paul Lauritzen

February 9, 2009

Bioethics

Article

The Conflicted Samaritan

By Jo McGowan

February 9, 2009

Columnists

Death and Dying

Article

Luce Change

By The Editors

February 9, 2009

Editorial

Article

"Remaking America"

By The Editors

February 9, 2009

Editorial

Domestic Affairs

Article

Undue Burden?

By Consortium of Jesuit Bioethics Programs

February 9, 2009

Bioethics

Death and Dying

Article

Gordian Knots

By R. Scott Appleby

February 9, 2009

Books

Foreign Affairs

Article

Summer Intern

By Richard Alleva

February 9, 2009

Movies

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Politics

All a Matter of Perspective?

Can Catholic health care find a viable middle way between strident voices on both the Right and Left?

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Religion

Renunciation and Christian Happiness

If union with God in self-sacrificing love is the highest end of a life, providing true happiness, how can we achieve it?

By Zena Hitz

March 20, 2023

Culture

On Tradition and the Passion Play

How a Bavarian village’s once-a-decade Passion play became a wrenching, intimate, sometimes chaotic psychological theo-drama

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

March 15, 2023

Books

Two Sides of Dignity

By letting civility happen, we take better care not only of others and of the world itself, but of ourselves.

By Costică Brădăţan

November 2, 2022

Books

Work of Human Hands

We shouldn’t be fearful of further transformations in the appearance of the Bible. The Word of God can speak as well in a laptop as from a manuscript.

By Luke Timothy Johnson

August 19, 2022

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Pope Francis at Ten Years

A wide-ranging collection of Commonweal’s coverage of the remarkable pontificate of Pope Francis.

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