Lent

Must Reads

Politics

How do we learn to love our neighbors who defend the indefensible?

Stephen J. Pope

March 3, 2025

Religion

Tomáš Halík’s new book directly challenges the conservative wing of the Church and radicalizes Pope Francis’s thought.

Paul Lakeland

February 26, 2025

Culture

Musa al-Gharbi's new book traces the rise of a new "woke" elite. His diagnosis minimizes the power of genuine elites: plutocrats.

George Scialabba

March 6, 2025

Books

All of Bruce Chatwin's work is an effort to understand people who find themselves at the end of a way of being.

Helen Rouner

March 14, 2025

Collections

Bringing together Commonweal's coverage of Francis's transformative papacy, from his inaugural mass to a rebuke of J.D. Vance.

The Editors

April 21, 2025