Magazine 2012-12-07 Previous IssueNext Issue Article Léon Bloy, the peril of pluralism By CommonwealNovember 26, 2012 Letters Article Justice By Jack LindemanNovember 26, 2012 Poetry Article Two Poems By Elizabeth PorebaNovember 26, 2012 Poetry Article Thin Air By Richard AllevaNovember 26, 2012 Movies Article Train of the Unknowns By Joseph SorrentinoNovember 26, 2012 Article Christmas Critics By Rachel M. BrownsteinNovember 26, 2012 Books Article License to Fret By Elizabeth Kirkland CahillNovember 26, 2012 The Last Word Article The Appraisal Czar By Margaret O'Brien SteinfelsNovember 22, 2012 Columnists Domestic Affairs Economy Environment Article A Jazz Mass? By Ian Marcus CorbinNovember 21, 2012 Liturgy Music Pope Benedict XVI Secularism and Modernity Spirituality U.S. Catholicism Article Gaza Redux By The EditorsNovember 19, 2012 Middle East Editorial Foreign Affairs War and Peace Article Four More Years By Nathan PippengerNovember 9, 2012 Barack Obama Immigration Supreme Court Barack Obama Domestic Affairs Financial Crisis Economy Election 2012 Environment Financial Crisis Health Care Immigration Supreme Court Previous Issue2011-12-02 Next Issue1970-01-01
Article The Appraisal Czar By Margaret O'Brien SteinfelsNovember 22, 2012 Columnists Domestic Affairs Economy Environment
Article A Jazz Mass? By Ian Marcus CorbinNovember 21, 2012 Liturgy Music Pope Benedict XVI Secularism and Modernity Spirituality U.S. Catholicism
Article Gaza Redux By The EditorsNovember 19, 2012 Middle East Editorial Foreign Affairs War and Peace
Article Four More Years By Nathan PippengerNovember 9, 2012 Barack Obama Immigration Supreme Court Barack Obama Domestic Affairs Financial Crisis Economy Election 2012 Environment Financial Crisis Health Care Immigration Supreme Court
PoliticsAll a Matter of Perspective? Can Catholic health care find a viable middle way between strident voices on both the Right and Left?By Bernard G. PrusakJanuary 27, 2023
ReligionRenunciation 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 HitzMarch 20, 2023
CultureOn Tradition and the Passion Play How a Bavarian village’s once-a-decade Passion play became a wrenching, intimate, sometimes chaotic psychological theo-dramaBy Susan Bigelow ReynoldsMarch 15, 2023
BooksTwo 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 BrădăţanNovember 2, 2022
BooksWork 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 JohnsonAugust 19, 2022
CollectionsPope Francis at Ten Years A wide-ranging collection of Commonweal’s coverage of the remarkable pontificate of Pope Francis.By The EditorsMarch 12, 2023