Article Islam’s Future in Kathmandu The Madrasa Discourses project provides a space for Muslims across South Asia to engage in a discussion regarding the future of the Islamic faith. By Thomas Albert HowardMarch 27, 2023 Islam Asia
Article Divided by a Common Language A new book attempts to encapsulate the history of a wide-ranging population united only by a single language—Arabic.By Patrick RyanFebruary 10, 2020 Books Middle East Islam
Article ‘True Indians’? In India, the Modi government is scapegoating Muslims to distract from the country’s most pressing problems. But citizens are resisting.By our correspondent in IndiaJanuary 21, 2020 Foreign Affairs India Islam
Article Crisis in Kashmir Modi couches taking control of Kashmir as ‘concern’ for its people. But it comes from a hard turn to Hindu nationalism targeting India’s only Muslim-majority stateBy Nicole-Ann LoboSeptember 18, 2019 India Islam Asia Foreign Affairs War and Peace
Article Hungry Together What can Ramadan teach us about the true meaning of Lent?By Roger F. RepohlMarch 7, 2019 Lent Islam From the Archives
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