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This Lent, let us learn from St. Óscar Romero about the meaning of Christian citizenship under a repressive regime.
John Updike's writing attempted to capture what is ineffably precious and intangible about life. What will be lost if the culture forgets him?

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.
In the third episode of our special podcast series, ‘Commonweal’ contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor speak with investigative reporter Daniel Silliman.
When arguing “parental rights” cases in front of the Supreme Court, advocates use a playbook created by twentieth-century Catholics.
The great English poet tried to solve the problem of objectivity by destroying the boundaries between himself and his subjects.
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.
Joseph Sorrentino photographs the lives of migrants living at Tochan, a shelter in Mexico City.