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

Engaging Confederate Nostalgia

For those of us who have a visceral objection to Confederate Memorial Day, how should we engage a worldview that embraces the mythology of the Lost Cause?

By Richard Brown

May 10, 2023

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

Changing Our Minds About Time

In her latest book, Jenny Odell challenges the very idea of time management.

By Katherine Lucky

May 7, 2023

Collections

Father’s Day

Commonweal writers reflect on their fathers and fatherhood.

June 15, 2022

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