Article The Trace of a Beginning The question is not whether or even how the climate crisis is changing the world. The question is: How should we live with it?By Isabella SimonDecember 17, 2021 Climate Change Nonfiction Christmas Critics
Article Revelatory Narratives These three authors offer stories that haven’t been given sufficient attention in traditional narratives.By Claudia Avila CosnahanDecember 8, 2021 Books Latin America Gender Race Christmas Critics
Article ‘Steadier Than Before’ “It was still possible to cross the continent like a medieval pilgrim: travelling on foot, stopping at shrines, and supported by charity.”By Paul ElieDecember 1, 2021 Books Christmas Critics LGBTQ issues
Article Living on Many Levels In times of crisis, returning to books first read years ago and set in eras gone by can help us gain perspective on the present. By Dominic PreziosiDecember 21, 2020 Books Christmas Critics Politics
Article Working It Out For Millenials, “burnout isn’t just a temporary affliction. It’s our contemporary condition.”By Katie DanielsDecember 17, 2020 Books Technology Christmas Critics
Article ‘Art Is Not Enough’ Philosophy and poetry that explores the deeply personal nature of beliefBy Burke NixonDecember 10, 2020 Christmas Critics Philosophy Arts
PoliticsLock Him Up? Declining to charge Trump for fear of how his supporters might react would concede to him the one thing he’s always wanted: total impunity.By Griffin OleynickAugust 25, 2022
ReligionGood Samaritans? If we were to frame abortion in Samaritan terms, the Dobbs decision returns the wrong issue to the states.By Meghan SullivanAugust 31, 2022
Religion‘There Will Be Surprises’ Pope Francis’s meetings in Rome bring together cardinals from around the world to discuss Curial reform.By Joshua J. McElweeAugust 30, 2022
ReligionEarnest Desire Pope Francis’s letter on liturgical formation challenges and affirms the People of God as a whole. By Rita FerroneAugust 27, 2022
ReligionMaxima Culpa The Church should respond to the horror of unmarked graves in Canadian residential schools with apologies, not evasions.By Matt DinanJuly 15, 2021
CultureThe Paradox of Public Scholarship Public-facing scholarship has become a given for many academics—but at what cost?By Susan Bigelow ReynoldsSeptember 6, 2022
CultureOnly God Could Join Us to God The poet Michael Robbins and theologian David Bentley Hart on Christianity, Yeats, and growing oldBy Michael Robbins & David Bentley HartAugust 30, 2022
BooksWho’s It For? The question “What makes a story ‘good writing’?” can’t be answered until you know who the story is for.By Eve TushnetAugust 7, 2022
CollectionsAbortion After Dobbs Commonweal writers discuss what Dobbs is likely to mean for abortion law, American politics, and the challenge of creating a “culture of life” worthy of the name.By The EditorsAugust 30, 2022
