Article The Church in Motion The first cinephile pope’s preoccupation with film has something to tell us about his worldview. By Daniel Rober April 23, 2025 Religion Culture Movies Pope Francis
Article Into the Wild The landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich combine the noble, the splendid, and the terrifying. By Robert Rubsam April 22, 2025 Culture Arts
Article Poem | Saint Phoebe as Midwife "The cross in the cache and ornate / necklace conjure a priestess for Christ’s creed / who drew her pagan people to heaven’s gate." By Mia Schilling Grogan April 22, 2025 Poetry
Article Poem | My Grandmother Told Me "Let the rain on your rooftop lay its long / fingers on your sleep, and take the hurt away / from what surrounds us." By Richard Tillinghast April 22, 2025 Poetry
Article Earth Day Writing from Commonweal reflects on the beauty of the Earth, the danger it is in, and how to protect it. By The Editors April 22, 2025 Environment Climate Change Politics Poetry
Article Natalia Imperatori-Lee Discusses Women’s Ordination and Francis’s Legacy in CNN “Francis unlocked a different kind of Catholicism in the public square," Imperatori-Lee argued. By The Editors April 22, 2025 News
Feature Controverted to the Core In the 1980s, artists—from Madonna to Leonard Cohen—claimed prayer, scripture, image, and ritual as their own. By Paul Elie April 22, 2025 Religion Politics Culture
Article Perfect Love Casts Out Fear The fearlessness of Pope Francis explains the extraordinary devotion so many felt toward him—and the antipathy of the powerful few. By Paul Lakeland April 22, 2025 Religion Pope Francis Death and Dying
Article Poem | Bushel "Past sixty, / my light still under its bushel, / I need to get clear, and soon." By Harold Van Lonkhuyzen April 21, 2025 Poetry
Article Letters | Progressives, pilgrims, and the lessons of history Readers debate progressive prejudices, discuss faith and doubt, and praise a recent essay about Trump's betrayal of Ukraine. By The Editors April 21, 2025 Letters
Article Contributing Writer Paul Moses Discusses Francis’s Legacy on NY1 Ultimately, Moses suggested that Francis is best understood not as a ‘liberal’ or a ‘conservative’ but as a ‘seamless garment’ Catholic. By The Editors April 21, 2025 News
Article Francis’s Church? From an emphasis on the global church to synodality, Pope Francis brought an outsider's perspective to his twelve-year papacy. By Massimo Faggioli April 21, 2025 Pope Francis Vatican Synodality
Article Francis and 'Commonweal' Bringing together Commonweal's coverage of Francis's transformative papacy, from his inaugural Mass to a rebuke of J. D. Vance. By The Editors April 21, 2025
Article The Last of the Boom For novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, the ambition to associate oneself with the universality that France symbolized was not in tension with the desire to tell the story of Latin America. By Santiago Ramos April 21, 2025 Politics Latin America
Article You Can’t Earn Easter Why is the joy of Easter hard to accept? By B. D. McClay April 20, 2025 Spirituality
