Immigration

Borderlands & Barrios

We talk to Benjamin Francis-Fallon about his new book, The Rise of the Latino Vote. And the Commonweal staff speaks about what they witnessed at the border in El Paso, Texas.

U.S. Catholicism

Social Justice

Immigration

Election 2020

Race

Article

Some Hope on Columbus Day

Ultimately, prejudice is defeated not so much by institutions as by individuals.

By Paul Moses

October 14, 2019

Race

Domestic Affairs

Immigration

Article

Religious Sisters on the Border

The sisters I met along the border know well the intractability of poverty, disease, and violence. That does not keep them from working to relieve them.

October 11, 2019

Article

Migrants in Limbo

We need a truly international reckoning with the fact of mass migration, one in which wealthy countries actually confront climate change and food insecurity.

September 25, 2019

Article

Pulling up the Ladder

The Trump administration’s immigration hardliners, like Ken Cuccinelli, seem to be suffering from faulty memory.

By Paul Moses

September 23, 2019

Immigration

Donald Trump

Academic Freedom

Article

The Faces behind the Numbers

About five hundred people, together with Cardinal Joseph Tobin, gathered in Newark, New Jersey to protest Trump’s border policies. Here’s what I saw.

September 19, 2019

Must Reads

Politics

When the Laity Led

In Nicaragua, revolutionary hope has given way to resentment and resignation. Can the popular church reclaim its role as the country’s conscience?

By Eileen Markey

October 1, 2019

Religion

When the Amazon Meets the Tiber

What matters at the Amazon synod is not the imperative of universal consistency across all regions of the church, but the pastoral welfare of the People of God.

By Austen Ivereigh

October 9, 2019

Religion

When Americans Become Saints

Men have often tried to shape the stories of holy women to narrow the boundaries of what female holiness can look like. Just look at Elizabeth Seton.

By Mollie Wilson O'Reilly

September 26, 2019

Culture

Saying the Unsayable

Poet and novelist Fanny Howe is an experimental writer’s experimental writer, the author of dozens of books, one who remains publicly, committedly Catholic.

By Anthony Domestico

September 27, 2019

Books

Inescapable Influence

Whether we like it or not, we in the West inhabit a world that remains structured by Christian assumptions and informed by Christian ideas.

By Costica Bradatan

September 30, 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

Collections

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