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Sally Rooney’s latest novel explores the everyday messiness of contemporary life and relationships.

By Ryan Lackey

October 19, 2021

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Silence & Contradiction

The poetry of San Juan de la Cruz forgets the familiar, easy, and convenient, slipping into darkness and unknowing to find God.

October 13, 2021

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Radicalism Without Revolution

A new book seeks to update Msgr. John A. Ryan’s vision of a moral economy for our own day and age.

October 11, 2021

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War Without End

On this episode, Phil Klay and Andrew Bacevich reflect on America’s “forever war.”

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Gravity & Grace

We live toward death, inescapably. Yet we also live surrounded by grace, love that has the power to ground us.

By Cynthia R. Wallace

October 8, 2021

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Death and Dying

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Who Are These ‘People’?

Synodality can demythologize clerical power, but in order to work, the people it centers must include the vulnerable, not just the elite.

October 7, 2021

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The Way of the WASP

Cynthia Ozick’s latest book chronicles mid-century U.S. culture and the friction between WASP America and Jewish people.

By Benjamin Wilson

October 6, 2021

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Reckoning with Guantánamo

The continued existence of Guantánamo Bay is unconscionable. So is the fact that it was ever opened in the first place.

By The Editors

September 28, 2021

Religion

‘Always Together’

An excerpt from ‘Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis’

By Pope Francis

September 28, 2021

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In Awe of All People

The late John August Swanson’s ‘Procession’ reminds us that we all walk together, sharing our suffering and our happiness.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

September 30, 2021

Books

‘Sops to Humanity’

Samuel Moyn’s new book demonstrates how a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself.

By Phil Klay

October 4, 2021

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Confronting Climate Change

Writing from Commonweal on the effects of climate change and our responsibility to care for our common home.

By The Editors

September 20, 2021

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