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Roots & Reality

Being rooted—in family, community, faith—is certainly a good thing. But clinging too doggedly to our roots can blind us to reality.

October 23, 2020

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Keeping Up With China

To retain its position as a world power, argues Matthew Yglesias, the United States needs to dramatically increase its population—fast.

October 21, 2020

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The Suspended Beauty of the Cross

In David Jones’s ‘Crucifixion,’ beauty and brutality are so interwoven that they stun us into silence.

October 18, 2020

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The Election & Social Catholicism

We are at a perilous moment in American history, argues E.J. Dionne Jr., and public Catholicism must rise to the task.

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Following St. Francis

Pope Francis’s namesake saint provides a model for how Catholics should approach interreligious dialogue.

By Paul Moses

October 17, 2020

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False Choices

Defending Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb misrepresents both history and moral decision-making.

By John Schwenkler & Mark Souva

October 14, 2020

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Baptizing White Supremacy

An interview with Robert P. Jones examining the relationship of Christianity and white supremacy in America.

October 14, 2020

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Will a Plebiscite Bring Reform in Chile?

Mass demonstrators want to re-legitimize, reconstruct, and reconfigure Chile’s political foundation. But first, Chile must get past the pandemic.

By Santiago Ramos

September 1, 2020

Religion

Pope Francis’s Call to Fraternity

At the core of ‘Fratelli tutti’ is Francis’s conviction that the world is fast losing its sense of the oneness of the human family.

By Austen Ivereigh

October 4, 2020

Culture

Drinking Alone

Moving to a Rust Belt town taught me that real solidarity is harder than it looks.

By Jonathan Malesic

July 13, 2020

Books

D. H. Lawrence, Arch-Heretic

Nature is central to this collection of D. H. Lawrence’s nonfiction, from New Mexican deserts to flowering Tuscan hills.

By George Scialabba

October 10, 2020

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The 2020 Presidential Election

Amid the confusion created by the pandemic, one thing is clear: the 2020 election will be unlike any other. Here’s some of Commonweal’s best writing on the subject.

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September 11, 2020

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