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The Mad King’s War
Trump’s war in Iran violates the Constitution, international law, and just-war principles. It has no clear objectives and no exit strategy.
The Editors
New Ways to Survive
Joseph Sorrentino photographs the lives of migrants living at Tochan, a shelter in Mexico City.
Joseph Sorrentino

Vassalizing Europe

With U.S. and Israeli bombs dropping on Tehran, Europe is once again cowed into silence because of its addiction to American power.
Harrison Stetler
'Of This World'—On the Altar
Hosts and 'Commonweal' contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor chat with professor and author Jonathan Sheehan about the history of sacrifice, from the sacred to the secular.
Beyond Transactional
Donald TrumpReligionPolitics
Can any amount of Trumpian wrongdoing shake MAGA Evangelicals?
John Fea
Glowing Enigmas
ArtsCulture
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art introduces viewers to Helene Schjerfbeck’s understated, dreamlike paintings.
Bailey Trela
‘Don’t Open the Door—It’s Sanders!'
BooksPoetryPolitics
Poet Dan Chiasson's 'Bernie for Burlington' functions as a triple bildungsroman of Bernie Sanders, the city of Burlington, and Chiasson himself.
Anthony Domestico
Politics Without Partisanship
InterviewU.S. CatholicismBishopsReligion
On the occasion of his retirement, John Carr reflects on fifty years working for peace, justice, and Catholic social thought.
Heidi Schlumpf
Ashes & Solidarity
ImmigrationDonald TrumpReligionPolitics
For worshippers at a Chicago-area Ash Wednesday Mass, Trump's cruelty against migrants is nothing less than a spiritual crisis.
Michelle Nickerson
A Shrine and a School
ReligionCultureHigher Education
Christian Smith wants Notre Dame to be pure. But shrines are never pure—and Notre Dame is an American Catholic shrine.
Cathleen Kaveny & Robin Darling Young
She’s Alive!
SpiritualityLentReligionImmigration
The simple things—music, my community, my rising sourdough—will keep me hopeful in the Easter promise, reminding me that I am indeed alive.
Claudia Avila Cosnahan
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ReligionU.S. CatholicismHistorySupreme Court
Outwitting the Anti-Catholics
When arguing “parental rights” cases in front of the Supreme Court, advocates use a playbook created by twentieth-century Catholics.
Dennis J. Wieboldt III
PoetryCulturePhilosophy
Keats and the Real World
The great English poet tried to solve the problem of objectivity by destroying the boundaries between himself and his subjects.
Peter Schwendener
TheologyBishops
Dust Called to Glory
Bishop Erik Varden is a Catholic who desires to be catholic: to root himself in the soil of the tradition while at the same time journeying to alien lands.
Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt
ImmigrationCultureArts
New Ways to Survive
Joseph Sorrentino photographs the lives of migrants living at Tochan, a shelter in Mexico City.
Joseph Sorrentino