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Glowing Enigmas
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art introduces viewers to Helene Schjerfbeck’s understated, dreamlike paintings.
Bailey Trela
A Passport and a Baptismal Candle
For the second Sunday of Lent, Amirah Orozco reflects on baptism, citizenship, and lessons from St. Óscar Romero for twenty-first-century America.
Amirah Orozco
'Of This World'—Revelation and Reporting
In the third episode of our special podcast series, ‘Commonweal’ contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor speak with investigative reporter Daniel Silliman.
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
Leo’s Transatlantic Task
Pope Leo XIVReligionVaticanDonald Trump
How will Pope Leo navigate a growing hostility between the United States and the European continent?
Massimo Faggioli
Ash Wednesday Asks Nothing
LentThe Last WordReligion
“Ash Wednesday made no assumptions. It offered no promise that anything would get better. It spoke directly to the condition I recognized most readily.”
Jacob Lupfer
The Priesthood’s Ritual Logic
Women in the ChurchReligion
I was initially certain the Church’s refusal to ordain women was an archaic bit of chauvinism. But now I'm no longer certain that is the real issue.
Paul Baumann
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The Remaking of Thomas Mann
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Amirah Orozco
Beyond Transactional
John Fea
‘Don’t Open the Door—It’s Sanders!'
Anthony Domestico
The Priesthood’s Ritual Logic
Paul Baumann
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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