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Commonweal (magazine)
Liberal American Catholic journal of opinion
For other uses, see Commonweal (disambiguation).
Commonweal is a liberal[1][2][a]Catholic journal of opinion, edited and managed by lay people, headquartered in New York City.
It is the oldest independent Catholic journal of opinion in the United States.
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History
Founded in 1924 by Michael Williams (1877–1950) and the Calvert Associates, Commonweal is the oldest independent Roman Catholic journal of opinion in the United States. The magazine was originally modeled on The New Republic and The Nation but “expressive of the Catholic note” in covering literature, the arts, religion, society, and politics.
One of the magazine's most famous contributors is Dorothy Day, who began writing for it in 1929. In 1932, she met Peter Maurin, who had visited the offices of Commonweal to spread his ideas of a more radical practice and theory of the works of mercy; the editor of the