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  DECEMBER 2020 COMMONWEAL FROM THE EDITORS Biden’s first challenge COMMENT Georgia’s runoff elections (Isabella Simon) A new foreign policy (Griffin Oleynick) A climate president? (Dominic Preziosi) COLUMN Trump can run again (Matt Mazewski) SHORT TAKES The unjustifiable bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki   (John Schwenkler and Mark Souva) New life for cystic fibrosis patients (Roberto J. De La Noval ) How McCarrick got away with it for so long (David Gibson) ARTICLES A symposium on Fratelli tutti (Charles Taylor, William T. Cavanaugh, Vinson Cunningham, Neomi De Anda ) Bishop John England’s complicated legacy (Paul Lakeland) W. H. Auden and the postChristmas blues (Jeff Reimer) INTERVIEW Frank Pasquale(with Lawrence Joseph) ARTS Vida Americana (Griffin Oleynick) CHRISTMAS CRITICS (Kirstin Valdez Quade, Burke Nixon , Katie Daniels, Dominic Preziosi) BOOKS Hotly in Pursuit of the Real by Ron Hansen (Reviewed by Gerald J. Russello) ...

NOVEMBER 2020 COMMONWEAL   FROM THE EDITORS Democracy in America? COMMENT Nagorno-Karabakh  ( Griffin Oleynick) Saving New START  (Regina Munch) Mass in the orange zone (Paul Moses) COLUMN The soundtrack of ‘Fratelli tutti’  (Susan Bigelow Reynolds) SHORT TAKES The moral meaning of a vote for Donald Trump (Timothy Snyder) Sr. Thea Bowman’s challenge to the Catholic Church (Tia Noelle Pratt) Convicting Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano (Martha Doggett ) ARTICLES The controversy over Pius XII (Kevin Madigan) Riding with the hourlies (Jay Neugeboren) The new integralism (Timothy Troutner) BOOKS One Billion Americans by Matthew Yglesias (Reviewed by Matt Mazewski) Jack by Marilynne Robinson (Reviewed by Valerie Sayers) The Math Campers by Dan Chiasson (Reviewed by Anthony Domestico) In Search of the Soul by John Cottingham (Reviewed by Bernard G. Prusak) Charter School City by Douglas N. Harris (Reviewed by Mercedes K. Schneider) ...

 Reimagining U.S. Catholicism Today. On Mondays during October, Commonweal had a series called that were available live through Zoom, . Each topic had a panel of four people and a moderator for a discussion that lasted about an hour long. They are all available now on the  Commonweal YouTube Site The following, the final and best one, was on the pandemic, community, and parish life.  Below I give an outline of the conversation with brief phrases that may help you through the hour, and also help you to comment on the discussion.  The Future of Community & Sacramental Life |  Claudia Avila Cosnahan (moderator):  Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles  Question: what  has the pandemic revealed  about  the role of the parish in the mission of the church? Darius Villatobos  National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry 1. how fragile parish life is (gave example of deacon who had to take over responsibility when prie...

  OCTOBER 2020 COMMONWEAL FROM THE EDITORS The worst president COMMENT Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Dominic Preziosi) Vaccine politics (Katie Daniels) Russia’s toxic behavior (Dominic Preziosi) COLUMN Reopening Catholic schools (Mollie Wilson O’Reilly) SHORT TAKES Idolatry at the RNC (Michael Peppard) Griever-in-Chief (Paul Moses & Michael Connor) How progressives win in rural America (Luke Mayville) The crisis in Amazonia (Bryan P. Galligan, SJ) The West Coast wildfires (Katherine Lucky) ARTICLES Social Catholicism and the 2020 election( E. J. Dionne Jr.) The case against Myanmar (Paul C. Saunders) Adrian Vermeule’s integralism (Jason Blakely) Savers and unloaders (Rand Richards Cooper) INTERVIEW Robert P. Jones (with Regina Munch) BOOKS The Bad Side of Books by D. H. Lawrence (Reviewed by George Scialabba) State of War by William Wheeler (Reviewed by César J. Baldelomar) A Woman Called Moses by Jean-Christophe Attias (Reviewed by Mahri ...

  SEPTEMBER 2020 COMMONWEAL FROM THE EDITORS Voting as an act of faith COMMENT HEROES & cheapskates (Regina Munch) Beirut’s agony (Griffin Oleynick) Mosque or museum? (George E. Demacopoulos)   COLUMN John Paul II on social sin(Rita Ferrone) SHORT TAKES The “canceling” of Flannery O’Connor? (Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Cathleen Kaveny) Federal immigration officers in Portland (Paul Moses) Poland’s complacent majority (Piotr H. Kosick)i The unrevised Ephrem (Joseph Amar)  ARTICLES   Protest and reform in Chile (Santiago Ramos, Joseph S. Flipper) Religion in American politics (Kenneth L. Woodward) Why the Left must work with liberals (James T. Kloppenberg)  INTERVIEW   Louise Erdrich with Anthony Domestico  SCREEN   ‘Hunters’ & ‘Come and See’ (Robert Rubsam) BOOKS   Lost in Thought by Zena Hitz (Reviewed by Charles McNamara) American Prophets by Jack Jenkins    (Reviewed by Kaya Oakes) Catholic Social Teaching edited by Gerard V....

In early July, The Pew Research organization did a study of worship during the pandemic. For full lengthy report see here:    Pew Study of Worship During the Pandemic Pew Research Center conducted this survey to help understand how the coronavirus outbreak has impacted the worship habits of Americans. They surveyed 10,211 U.S. adults from July 13 to 19, 2020. All respondents are part of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel recruited through national random sampling of residential addresses. Thus Pew had data from last year on these same respondents. Of people who had said in the 2019 survey that they attend religious services at least once a month, most (91%) indicated that their congregations were closed entirely during April. Most also reported their congregations open in July including 55% who said their congregations were open with certain coronavirus-related modifications in place and 6% who said their congregation were open and operat...

  JULY-AUGUST 2020 COMMONWEAL COLUMNS      Connected by coronavirus (Cathleen Kaveny)      The debate about lockdown measures (Matt Mazewski)       SHORT TAKES        Catholics and the 1918 influenza (Paul Moses)     What the experts can’t tell us (David Cloutier)    Moving toward racial justice (M. Shawn Copeland)      ARTICLES       Bad traditionalism(Tara Isabella Burton)     Drinking alone (Jonathan Malesic)     How to write about depression (Matthew Sitman)   INTERVIEW       Bryan Massingale(with Regina Munch)   FICTION   Patio(Valerie Sayers   BOOKS   On Not Being Someone Else by Andrew H. Miller (Reviewed by Morten Høi Jensen) The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick (Reviewed by Hannah Gold) Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty...