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Commonweal

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This magazine has been around since 1924! I have been reading it since 1965 in the post-Vatican II era. The writing tends to be witty, intelligent, and balanced. I haven't always agreed with the stand of the editors, especially on the first War in Iraq, but they give me food for thought. I think without Commonweal, I would no longer be a Catholic. They have done a great job of covering the sexual abuse scandal. Don't miss the letters to the editor...it's like a conversation between friends and foes. Also the movie reviews by Richard Alleva are top-notched as are the theater reviews by Celia Wren. Happy 80th birthday! And, I hope they are around long after I am gone.

I read my father's newsprint bound Commonweal with interest as a child, excited by its intelligence fairness, theology and insight into the mysteries of our Faith in practice. Now I am my own subscriber.

I regret to have lost much of what we read with joy before, and yet appreciate what yet remains of this great Catholic journal, now in a slicker format, which looks with objectivity and lingering wisdom at the state of our Church exiled in this World of war and injustice and other sins of the flesh and spirit.

I appreciate the editorial and objective perspective on the new papacy, our present and our future. Commonweal in our weakened age still has it, still delivers the goods, ever quietly but correctly, a worthy and welcome and prophetic guest in any thinking, praying, practicing Catholic household.