Article The Why & the How If having a purpose is your motivation, what happens when the floor falls out and the realization of all those plans becomes impossible?By Gordon MarinoSeptember 5, 2021 Death and Dying The Last Word
Article Things Objects in a novel or story are created, chosen, and hand-delivered by the author, and as such they all quiver with meaning.By Alice McDermottAugust 7, 2021 Fiction Books The Last Word
Article I Firmly Resolve I believe that God can always make good from evil. But looking over this past year, what I mostly know is that I didn’t.By B. D. McClayJune 26, 2021 Religion Spirituality The Last Word
Article Love, Actively As Dostoevsky sees it, divine grace enables humans to perform the work of justice: helping the weak and confronting the powerful. By Paul J. ContinoJune 22, 2021 Fiction Spirituality The Last Word
Article Two Adoptions “While nothing can alter or supersede my first adoption, I believe my second adoption might resurrect some of the first one’s losses.” By Melody GeeApril 1, 2021 Spirituality U.S. Catholicism The Last Word
Article The Antics of the Turnips On making the smallest actions into acts of loveBy St. Rafael ArnáizMarch 17, 2021 Spirituality The Last Word
PoliticsLooking the Other Way Two important decisions this term highlight the power of the Supreme Court’s language to mask grave injustices.By Fernando C. SaldivarSeptember 14, 2021
ReligionThe Spirit in the Assembly The upcoming synod on synodality could be transformative for the Church. But right now, it’s being largely ignored.By Austen IvereighSeptember 16, 2021
CultureThings Get Broken Leonard Bernstein’s ‘MASS’ explores lament and praise, accidents, and youth lost and found.By Stephen Schloesser, SJSeptember 24, 2021
BooksFractured Remembrance Two memoirs explore the complicated relationships of daughters and their immigrant parents.By Melody S. GeeSeptember 22, 2021
CollectionsConfronting Climate Change Writing from Commonweal on the effects of climate change and our responsibility to care for our common home.By The EditorsSeptember 20, 2021
