Founding of Commonweal magazine

1924

A serious lay-organized journal of opinion, Commonweal represented a certain coming-of-age of the intellectual life of American Catholics when it began publication in the 1920s.

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Link

Commonweal

Books

 R. Van Allen, The Commonweal and American Catholicism: the magazine, the movement, the meaning

 R. Van Allen, Being Catholic: Commonweal from the Seventies to the Nineties

Article

David Settje, "Dueling Catholic Periodicals: America’s and Commonweal’s Perceptions of the Cold and Vietnam Wars, 1964-1975," Catholic Social Science Review (2004)