Some good articles on Commonweal, Religion section
1) A Wakeup Call for Catholic Bishops
2) Reframing Religious Liberty
3) Not the Time for Reconciliation.
4) Is the Common Good Obsolete?

I would like to see more like this.  Good questions are being asked, important points raised.  If we had more of it, maybe it would bring greater awareness.  But, these types of articles and these issues need to be raised in Sunday Bulletins, in diocesan news papers.  There need to be discussion groups among parishioners where subjects like this are discussed - and discussion leaders who keep it from dissolving into the usual political taking sides on the bishops militant subjects and ignoring everything else.  

This NCR fills a niche in Catholic media that no one else does.  True, it doesn't do it all.  But I want what it does bring - an awareness of what is happening in the Catholic world, in parishes and the Vatican.  I like MSW's pieces, his mixed, sometimes screwy point of view makes me think.