Magazine

2013-03-08

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Article

Ribbon Chasers

By Gordon Marino

February 25, 2013

Article

Men Behaving Badly

By Valerie Sayers

February 25, 2013

Article

Natural Enemies?

By John Schwenkler

February 25, 2013

Article

Little Stalins

By James J. Sheehan

February 25, 2013

Article

Raw Spaghetti

By Richard Alleva

February 25, 2013

Article

Ash Wednesday

By Timothy P. Schilling

February 25, 2013

Article

Assembly Required

By William L. Portier

February 25, 2013

Article

Nothing to Celebrate

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

February 25, 2013

Pope John Paul II

Domestic Affairs

Pope John Paul II

U.S. Catholicism

Article

Quashing ‘dissent’

February 25, 2013

Article

Shock Therapy

Benedict's resignation forced the church to allow something that has been thought unacceptable for centuries, setting the stage for his predecessor to do likewise.

By Peter Steinfels

February 22, 2013

U.S. Catholicism

Pope Benedict XVI

Pope John Paul II

Secularism and Modernity

Sexual-abuse Crisis

Women in the Church

Article

After Benedict

With the concentration of power in Rome, perhaps the responsibilities of the papacy are not simply too much for a person of Benedict's age, but for any one person.

February 20, 2013

U.S. Catholicism

Pope Benedict XVI

Pope John Paul II

Sexual-abuse Crisis

Women in the Church

Article

Benedict's Act of Humility

Benedict’s resignation was a self-denying act of personal humility. What we need now in Rome are acts of institutional humility and self-denial.

By Joseph A. Komonchak

February 19, 2013

U.S. Catholicism

Pope Benedict XVI

Pope John Paul II

Sexual-abuse Crisis

Women in the Church

Must Reads

Politics

How Not to Defend Liberalism

Technocratic neoliberalism is not the rightful heir of the liberal tradition, but an anti-democratic distortion of it.

By Alexander Stern

September 14, 2023

Religion

Bringing Mass to a Migrant Camp

“In a migrant camp, liturgy is an act of bricolage.”

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

September 1, 2023

Culture

Dancing Around Death

A new exhibit brings together Tibetan Buddhist and European Christian art, inviting visitors to ponder their ambivalence surrounding death.

September 14, 2023

Books

Helen Keller, Christian Socialist

Helen Keller's public image is benignly inspiring. A new book digs into her identity as a radical Leftist whose politics were rooted in her faith.

September 13, 2023

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Confronting Climate Change

Writing from Commonweal on the effects of climate change and our responsibility to care for our common home.

September 20, 2021

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