Feature Counter-Spells The intersection of the sacred and the profane in hip-hop reminds us of our common humanity.By Alejandro NavaMay 10, 2022 Arts Theology Music Culture
Article Do You Hear What I Hear? Christmas music is everywhere. But I can’t say that it’ll bring us together, or return us to an imaginary Christian past.By Katherine LuckyDecember 24, 2021 Music Spirituality
Article Babylon & Boogie Street Throughout Leonard Cohen’s life, he sought a commitment to others that echoed, however imperfectly, Jesus’s love.By Marcia PallyNovember 11, 2021 Music Spirituality
Feature Things Get Broken Leonard Bernstein’s ‘MASS’ explores lament and praise, accidents, and youth lost and found.By Stephen Schloesser, SJSeptember 24, 2021 Music History
Article Shaman & Scapegoat Perhaps more than any of the other celebrated pop stars of his time, Jim Morrison understood that one day the party would end.By Santiago RamosAugust 15, 2021 Music Rock-and-roll
Article ‘When Black Was Born’ A new documentary explores the power of Black music at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969.By Clifford ThompsonAugust 1, 2021 Music Race Movies
PoliticsLock Him Up? Declining to charge Trump for fear of how his supporters might react would concede to him the one thing he’s always wanted: total impunity.By Griffin OleynickAugust 25, 2022
ReligionGood Samaritans? If we were to frame abortion in Samaritan terms, the Dobbs decision returns the wrong issue to the states.By Meghan SullivanAugust 31, 2022
Religion‘There Will Be Surprises’ Pope Francis’s meetings in Rome bring together cardinals from around the world to discuss Curial reform.By Joshua J. McElweeAugust 30, 2022
ReligionEarnest Desire Pope Francis’s letter on liturgical formation challenges and affirms the People of God as a whole. By Rita FerroneAugust 27, 2022
ReligionMaxima Culpa The Church should respond to the horror of unmarked graves in Canadian residential schools with apologies, not evasions.By Matt DinanJuly 15, 2021
CultureThe Paradox of Public Scholarship Public-facing scholarship has become a given for many academics—but at what cost?By Susan Bigelow ReynoldsSeptember 6, 2022
CultureOnly God Could Join Us to God The poet Michael Robbins and theologian David Bentley Hart on Christianity, Yeats, and growing oldBy Michael Robbins & David Bentley HartAugust 30, 2022
BooksWho’s It For? The question “What makes a story ‘good writing’?” can’t be answered until you know who the story is for.By Eve TushnetAugust 7, 2022
CollectionsAbortion After Dobbs Commonweal writers discuss what Dobbs is likely to mean for abortion law, American politics, and the challenge of creating a “culture of life” worthy of the name.By The EditorsAugust 30, 2022
