‘Emotional Archaeology’

An Interview with Ken Burns

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Why Data Privacy Needs Legal Protection

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Last Letters from a Nazi Prison

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Casino Democracy

Supporters of the electoral college are implicitly arguing that states with a higher percentage of white, non-Hispanic voters should choose who becomes president

August 30, 2019

Article

The Viganò Letter, One Year Later

The crisis hasn’t abated, just entered a different phase

By Massimo Faggioli

August 29, 2019

Pope Francis

Second Vatican Council

Sexual-abuse Crisis

Article

When the News Isn’t Fake

Clarence Thomas’s attack on the media is more than obtuse; it is irresponsible and dangerous.

By Mollie Wilson O'Reilly

August 28, 2019

Supreme Court

Media

Race

Article

Shaming the Shamers

Someone churchy thought a girl’s outfit was more important than her presence at church. Religion offers many excuses for emotional predation; we have to call it out

By David Mills

August 27, 2019

Women in the Church

Spirituality

Article

A Sign of Contradiction

Fr. August Thompson refused to accept the racism he experienced from white Catholics, and spent his life fighting for racial justice in Louisiana.

By Gregory K. Hillis

August 26, 2019

Race

Social Justice

Article

No Man Is an Island

Thomas Merton taught me to value self-denial, but a bout of depression forced me to question whether asceticism was the healthiest response to my life.

August 24, 2019

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Politics

Civil Conflict in the Age of Trump

How should democracies deal with irreconcilable differences? How should we weigh the value of deliberation against its costs?

By James T. Kloppenberg

September 4, 2019

Religion

My Two Abortions

The need for abortion is evidence of our broken humanity, but our current response also shows our church’s inability to respond fully to the female experience.

By Anonymous

August 27, 2019

Culture

No Man Is an Island

Thomas Merton taught me to value self-denial, but a bout of depression forced me to question whether asceticism was the healthiest response to my life.

By Nick Scrimenti

August 24, 2019

Culture

That Was Freedom

Easy Rider is a lasting work of art not only because it reflects the “spirit of the Sixties,” but because it depicts a bona fide tragedy that transcends its time.

By Santiago Ramos

August 22, 2019

Books

Out of Touch

George Weigel resurrects an antiquated and narrow form of Catholicism at a historical moment when the future of the church is in crisis.

By James Chappel

September 5, 2019

Books

Boot Camp for Nuns

I’m nineteen years old, the year is 1958, and I’ve already made it through the first nine months of probation. More than anything in the world I want to be a saint.

By Sr. Helen Prejean

September 3, 2019

Collections

Fiction in Commonweal

To celebrate the publication our summer fiction issue, a new collection of short stories from our archives.

By The Editors

July 30, 2019

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Labor & the Catholic Church

Commonweal writers have long engaged with the church’s stance on labor rights, worker justice, and income inequality. Here are the best pieces from our archives.

By The Editors

July 10, 2019