Commonweal Magazine

Latest

Article

Remembering Gary Gutting

The community of philosophers mourns the death of Gary Gutting—a brilliant scholar, devoted teacher, and exemplary public intellectual

By John Schwenkler

January 20, 2019

Philosophy

Secularism and Modernity

Article

A Heist of the Heart

Wielding his trademark tools of pathos and whimsy, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda announces he’s out to steal your heart—then tiptoes in and does it anyway

By Rand Richards Cooper

January 18, 2019

Movies

Poverty

Social Justice

Article

Why We Came

We asked you to tell us your stories of why you came, left, or stayed in the church. In this final installment, two readers share their conversion to Catholicism

By The Editors

January 17, 2019

Spirituality

Religious Life

U.S. Catholicism

Current Issue

January 25, 2019

Article

Building Bridges at the Border

Disappointed after President Trump’s visit to Texas, Sr. Norma Pimentel urges Americans to stop demonizing both immigrants and border officers

January 15, 2019

Article

Living into ‘Laudato si’’

Catholics in the Philippines, more than anywhere else, have brought Pope Francis’s ecological vision to life and made it their own

January 15, 2019

Article

The PA Grand-Jury Report: Not What It Seems

The grand-jury report does not substantiate the prevailing script about how bishops let predators get away with committing and recommitting their crimes

January 14, 2019

Must Reads

Politics

The Cost of Civilization

A mark of our barbarous times has been a decades-long obsession with cutting taxes, exemplified most recently by the GOP bill signed into law one year ago

By The Editors

January 14, 2019