¹ Van Allen, Rodger, The Commonweal and American Catholicism: The Magazine, the Movement, the Meaning (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1974);Google Scholar henceforth Commonweal and American Catholicism.

² Ibid., 5.

³ Ibid., 9. In my geographic area, institutional subscriptions to Commonweal run just slightly behind those to the New Republic, 134 to 146 (unpublished study, “Commonweal Survey of Our Subscribers,” courtesy of Edward S. Skillin).

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⁵ McGowan, Mary Jo, “Marriage Versus Just Living Together: Acknowledging Life in the Context of Community,” Commonweal, March 13, 1981, 142–44;Google Scholar and McBrien, Richard P., “Homosexuality and the Priesthood: Questions We Can't Keep in the Closet,” Commonweal, 06 19, 1987, 370–73.Google Scholar McBrien's was not the first article the journal had published on the issue.

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¹¹ “Commonweal Survey of Our Subscribers,” 3.

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