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Our economy is based largely on fantasy, a flight from reality that has led to a series of unsustainable economic choices and the crisis we are now experiencing. In contrast, the idea of the (...)  |  |


A review of John Allen's new book 'Future Church: How Ten Trends Are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church'  |  |
Many a baby boomer was raised on tales of the Great Depression, tales of sharecroppers, breadlines, NRA parades, and sparing a dime for a brother in need. These often played a bigger part in our (...)  |  |
Beginning with founding editor Michael Williams (1924-38), Commonweal has enjoyed a great deal of continuity at the top of the masthead. Perhaps most remarkable in this regard was Edward S. (...)  |  |


The Informant! both gripped and frustrated me. This is Steven Soderbergh's semi-fictional adaptation of Kurt Eichenwald's factual account of the 1990s Archer Daniels Midland scandal, a conspiracy (...)  |  |
Eamon Duffy is perhaps best known to general readers as the author of Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes (1997), a one-volume history of the papacy from St. Peter to John Paul II. But in (...)  |  |
It now seems clear that political pressures have transformed President Barack Obama's health-care reform plan into a health-insurance reform plan. Some commentators have protested that this (...)  |  |
The former editor of the Tablet on loyalty, independence & the Catholic press  |  |
Catholicism and modernity has proven to be a volatile mix. Illustrations are legion, and perhaps as tiresome as they are inescapable in the daily lives of Catholics. The two Vatican Councils (...)  |  |
The Catholic bishops of the United States have historically been a strong voice in favor of health-care reform. More than fifteen years ago, they issued a statement that began, "our (...)  |  |
Correction In the otherwise very fine piece by "Sister X" on the Vatican investigation of U.S. women religious, an argument was attributed to me which is a very serious (...)  |  |
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