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'This Is Our Opera'

A conversation with Jake Heggie, the composer who adapted the story of Sr. Helen Prejean's work against capital punishment as an opera.

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Patients Over Profits

Reining in the pharmaceutical industry is an important step toward making health care more affordable for everyone.

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Autoworkers Stand Up

Striking autoworkers resist an economy designed to make the rich richer no matter the cost.

September 23, 2023

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A Church Against Science?

Science’s threat to faith is actually no threat at all.

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September 23, 2023

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Do Catholic Colleges Have a Future?

How should Catholic colleges and universities navigate the clash between neoliberalism and the common-good vision of Catholic social teaching?

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September 21, 2023

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Child Labor Isn’t in the Past

We can’t afford to play dumb as labor protections fail and disappear. Treating children like cheap labor costs too much.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

August 6, 2023

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Opus Dei’s Ordinary Secularity

In a new history of Opus Dei, two senior members celebrate the group’s embrace of ordinary life.

By Daniele Palmer

August 4, 2023

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Barbie the Existentialist

Stereotypical Barbie is everything, which is another way of saying that she is nothing.

By Santiago Ramos

August 25, 2023

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Is Ethics Like Math?

A new biography of philosopher Derek Parfit explains the eccentric philosopher's quest to find a legitimate secular moral theory.

By Frank B. Farrell

August 17, 2023

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Pope Francis at Ten Years

A wide-ranging collection of Commonweal’s coverage of the remarkable pontificate of Pope Francis.

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March 12, 2023

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