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2013-04-12

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Pope Francis’ First Mass

From 2013: Grant Gallicho reports from Pope Francis’ inaugural mass in St. Peter’s Square.

By Grant Gallicho

March 12, 2023

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Praying with the Council

By Rita Ferrone

April 1, 2013

Article

God’s Eye View

By Luke Timothy Johnson

April 1, 2013

Article

Larger than Legend

By Michael W. Higgins

April 1, 2013

Secularism and Modernity

Article

More Mission, Less Maintenance

By William L. Portier

April 1, 2013

Pope Benedict XVI

Pope John Paul II

Secularism and Modernity

U.S. Catholicism

Women in the Church

Article

Theology & Censorship

By Leo J. O’Donovan

April 1, 2013

Article

A Nation of Two

By Rand Richards Cooper

April 1, 2013

Article

At The Burial of an Abbess

April 1, 2013

Article

Testing the Boundaries

By Michael Peppard

April 1, 2013

Article

Two Ducks

By William Meyer

April 1, 2013

Article

Buried Treasure

By Steve Futterman

April 1, 2013

Article

Thwarted

By Steven P. Millies, Gerald J. Russello

April 1, 2013

Domestic Affairs

Article

Why ‘Francis’?

April 1, 2013

Muslim-Christian Relations

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Reading the Tea Leaves

By Cathleen Kaveny

April 1, 2013

Contraception mandate

Contraception mandate

Article

American Islam

April 1, 2013

Article

Bridge Builder

Commonweal’s editors react to the election of Pope Francis, arguing that his first responsibility is to repair division in the Church.

March 26, 2013

Pope Benedict XVI

Article

The Church in Latin America

By Julia G. Young

March 21, 2013

Secularism and Modernity

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Complicit?

March 18, 2013

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