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2012-08-17

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Surface Tensions

By Erin O’Luanaigh

August 6, 2012

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High Shtick

By Gabriel Brownstein

August 6, 2012

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Ever Ancient, Ever New

By Martin F. Connell

August 6, 2012

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‘Year 1 p.s.U.’

But can a humanism be described as Christian when it doesn’t believe in the birth, death, and resurrection of Christ?

By Anthony Domestico

August 6, 2012

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Bad Samaritan

By Matt Emerson

August 6, 2012

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Inward Bound

By J. Bryan Hehir

August 6, 2012

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The Big Thirst

By Patrick Jordan

August 6, 2012

Article

Is Love a Babe?

By Francis Kane

August 6, 2012

Article

A wide tradition

August 6, 2012

Article

Unlucky Jim

By Jeffrey Meyers

August 6, 2012

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After Hopkins

By Brandon Krieg

August 6, 2012

Article

What We’ve Learned

By Peter Steinfels

August 6, 2012

Sexual-abuse Crisis

Sexual-abuse Crisis

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Hawk Talk

By Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

August 6, 2012

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Out at the Root

By Brandon Krieg

August 6, 2012

Article

Care Package

By Wayne Sheridan

August 6, 2012

Contraception mandate

Death and Dying

End-of-life Issues

Secularism and Modernity

U.S. Catholicism

Contraception mandate

Death and Dying

Article

Our Bloody Altar

By William Werpehowski

August 6, 2012

Article

Benedict Goes to Cuba

Despite popular coverage insisting that Benedict's visit to Cuba was unfruitful, Quigley insists that the pope's visit was one of engagement, not confrontation.

August 2, 2012

Foreign Affairs

Pope Benedict XVI

Article

The Most Important Election Since 1932?

By Jeff Madrick

August 2, 2012

Domestic Affairs

Financial Crisis

Foreign Affairs

Article

Don't Ask, Won't Tell

August 1, 2012

Domestic Affairs

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Politics

Child Labor Isn’t in the Past

We can’t afford to play dumb as labor protections fail and disappear. Treating children like cheap labor costs too much.

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August 6, 2023

Religion

Opus Dei’s Ordinary Secularity

In a new history of Opus Dei, two senior members celebrate the group’s embrace of ordinary life.

By Daniele Palmer

August 4, 2023

Culture

Barbie the Existentialist

Stereotypical Barbie is everything, which is another way of saying that she is nothing.

By Santiago Ramos

August 25, 2023

Books

Is Ethics Like Math?

A new biography of philosopher Derek Parfit explains the eccentric philosopher's quest to find a legitimate secular moral theory.

By Frank B. Farrell

August 17, 2023

Collections

Pope Francis at Ten Years

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

March 12, 2023

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