Feature An Unintended Icon? The new St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Ground Zero unexpectedly recreates the Virgin of the Passion icon.By Matthew J. MillinerMarch 23, 2023 art Architecture
Article Beyond Wood & Stone How much does a building have to do with community?By Dominic PreziosiMay 11, 2019 U.S. Catholicism Spirituality Architecture
Feature At Kilometer Zero There’s the natural urge to pronounce on the fire’s deeper meaning. But for now, it might be more fitting to look upon Notre-Dame once again in gratitude and awe.By Christopher SchaeferApril 17, 2019 Spirituality Secularism and Modernity Architecture
PoliticsAll a Matter of Perspective? Can Catholic health care find a viable middle way between strident voices on both the Right and Left?By Bernard G. PrusakJanuary 27, 2023
ReligionRenunciation and Christian Happiness If union with God in self-sacrificing love is the highest end of a life, providing true happiness, how can we achieve it?By Zena HitzMarch 20, 2023
CultureOn Tradition and the Passion Play How a Bavarian village’s once-a-decade Passion play became a wrenching, intimate, sometimes chaotic psychological theo-dramaBy Susan Bigelow ReynoldsMarch 15, 2023
BooksTwo Sides of Dignity By letting civility happen, we take better care not only of others and of the world itself, but of ourselves.By Costică BrădăţanNovember 2, 2022
BooksWork of Human Hands We shouldn’t be fearful of further transformations in the appearance of the Bible. The Word of God can speak as well in a laptop as from a manuscript.By Luke Timothy JohnsonAugust 19, 2022
CollectionsPope Francis at Ten Years A wide-ranging collection of Commonweal’s coverage of the remarkable pontificate of Pope Francis.By The EditorsMarch 12, 2023