Feature After the Fire The fire left twelve thousand people homeless and living on the streets. I took this photo on September 17—just over a week after the fire.By Anna SurinyachOctober 7, 2020 Closing Shot War and Peace Foreign Affairs
Feature Scene From a Protest A child at a protest in Santa Clarita, June 2020.By Lamont RobersonJuly 1, 2020 Closing Shot Arts Social Justice
Feature Tailor Shop Making Masks for the Pandemic A tailor at Erfan Mohammadi’s dry-cleaning business in Uptown, Chicago makes affordable masks to sell to the local community.By Andrew SteinerMay 27, 2020 Arts Coronavirus Closing Shot
Feature Last Supper This photo was taken was taken at a small Bible-based rehabilitation center in Georgia. It was a moment when everything lined up right.By William Glaser WilsonMarch 25, 2020 U.S. Catholicism Arts Closing Shot
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