Article Lenten Reflections Reflections and poems to offer spiritual guidance during this period of national and theological mourningBy The EditorsFebruary 23, 2021 Lent Spirituality Coronavirus
Article Lenten Vulnerability During Lent, if we consider the plight of others and act in mercy, we discover that our relationship with God reaches new levels of intimacy.By Claudia Avila CosnahanFebruary 21, 2021 Lent Spirituality Poverty
Article Perpetual Lent How do you enter a time of mourning when you’ve been in one so long?By Claudia Avila CosnahanFebruary 17, 2021 Lent Coronavirus Spirituality
Article Repent & Believe The message that accompanies the ashes we receive on Ash Wednesday should invite us to community, love, and repentance rather than guilt or fear.By Michael H. MarchalFebruary 25, 2020 Lent Spirituality Theology
Article By Prayer Alone? Tracing the conversion of a worker-priest, a classic Chilean film from 1972 interrogates the fraught relationship between Christianity and Marxism.By Nicole-Ann LoboApril 8, 2019 Arts Movies Spirituality Lent
Article The Weight of the World Salvation, for Jesus, did not mean recusing Himself from the risks of human love. Even his inner circle betrayed him. By Renée Darline RodenApril 7, 2019 Spirituality Lent
PoliticsVisionary Gradualist Pressure To Michael Harrington, socialism was the idea of a society in which certain fundamental limitations of human existence are transcended.By Gary DorrienSeptember 8, 2021
ReligionA Beautiful Day, A Horrible Event From the archives: Faith in the Resurrection does not cancel out what happens on the cross; the cross is its beginning.By John GarveySeptember 11, 2021
ReligionThe Limits of ‘Traditionis Custodes’ Anti–Vatican II traditionalism won’t just disappear by papal fiat.By Massimo FaggioliSeptember 2, 2021
CultureThe Same Anew The poet Donald Revell believes that seeing—true seeing, ecstatic seeing—is the poet’s real task.By Anthony DomesticoSeptember 2, 2021
CultureThere Ought to Be a Law The law is one thing, morality another. Conflating them flattens our public morality into a deadening binary.By Matthew BoudwayMay 24, 2021
BooksLearning What to Want Not all aesthetic consumption is equal, and developing the ability to judge the art we encounter can help transform us.By Nate KlugSeptember 8, 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
