Magazine

May 18, 2018

v.145 n.9

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Poem | Ghost Trees

“Now a certain kind of scientist says / the weather in various parts of the world / is growing exhausted and just wants to lie down / for a nap”

By Michael Hettich

May 19, 2018

Poetry

Article

Action Heroes

Bernard McGinn is at pains to erase caricatures of Spanish mystics

By Lawrence S. Cunningham

May 17, 2018

Books

Spirituality

Religious Life

Article

A Wake-Up Call to Liberal Theologians

Academic theology needs the church as much as the church needs theology

May 16, 2018

Article

A Purpose-Driven Life

The latest book from the philosopher Daniel Dennett is a work of tremendous ambition

By John Schwenkler

May 15, 2018

Evolution

Books

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Unstilled Longings

How, despite its political and cultural travails, Ireland earned an outsized role in making the modern imagination

By Peter Quinn

May 14, 2018

Books

Foreign Affairs

Feature

Protecting Religious Liberty

Why should religious beliefs warrant accommodation when they conflict with other people’s interests?

By Bernard G. Prusak

May 14, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Domestic Affairs

Article

Leisure Suits Her

Patricia Hampl expounds on the value of a certain kind of psychic space, which she refers to as “leisure”

By Celia Wren

May 12, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Arts

Books

Article

How Can It Be True?

It’s easy to assume that bishops who transferred priests accused of abuse were doing it to avoid scandal. But it’s also possible that they were like me

By Jo McGowan

May 11, 2018

Sexual-abuse Crisis

Columnists

Ethics

Article

Half the Story

New historical perspectives on how church’s stance toward the modern world changed (and didn’t)

May 9, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Hold Out for Joy

Holiness should neither scare nor bore us

By The Editors

May 8, 2018

Feature

How Religion Got Trump

Re-examining the role of faith in the 2016 election

By Kenneth L. Woodward

May 7, 2018

Election 2016

Donald Trump

Secularism and Modernity

Feature

The Bishops’ Brief Against the Ban

However the Supreme Court rules on Trump’s ban on migration from Muslim nations, the USCCB’s brief stakes out an authentic Catholic position on Islam

By Paul Moses

April 26, 2018

Muslim-Christian Relations

Article

Do Catholic Theology Departments Have a Future?

Catholic academic theology is undergoing a severe stress test

By Michael J. Hollerich

May 18, 2018

Higher Education

Theology

U.S. Catholicism

Article

Talk in Your Town

Being in regular conversation with other Commonweal readers has been rewarding and fun

By Ann Redpath

May 3, 2018

U.S. Catholicism

Media

The Last Word

Feature

He stopped saying “Get rid of it,” but was not going to give up his career or lead a monogamous life with a Coloured wife from Cape Town

Between Worlds

By Rose Rappoport Moss

May 2, 2018

Fiction

Article

Poem | Sweet Potato Elegy

“I used to think a tumor like a stone / or tuber could be lifted from the land // it lodged in. This was not so”

By John Linstrom

May 2, 2018

Poetry

Article

Letters | Bad translations, considering death and putting it off

Readers discuss liturgical translation, the questions death makes us ask, and more

By The Editors

May 2, 2018

Letters

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