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
Article ‘Clown, Professor, Writer’ Robert Lax was many things: a mystic, a poet, a world traveler, and a convert from Judaism to Catholicism who valued both traditions.By Carol LevineJune 10, 2021 Poetry Music
Article The Second Life of a Masterpiece Olivier Messiaen’s ‘Three Small Liturgies’ debuted as war raged in Europe. Now we listen to his masterpiece in a new context—Christmas during a pandemic.By Stephen Schloesser, SJDecember 30, 2020 Music
PoliticsAll a Matter of Perspective? Can Catholic health care find a viable middle way between strident voices on both the Right and Left?By Bernard G. PrusakJanuary 27, 2023
ReligionRenunciation and Christian Happiness If union with God in self-sacrificing love is the highest end of a life, providing true happiness, how can we achieve it?By Zena HitzMarch 20, 2023
CultureOn Tradition and the Passion Play How a Bavarian village’s once-a-decade Passion play became a wrenching, intimate, sometimes chaotic psychological theo-dramaBy Susan Bigelow ReynoldsMarch 15, 2023
BooksTwo Sides of Dignity By letting civility happen, we take better care not only of others and of the world itself, but of ourselves.By Costică BrădăţanNovember 2, 2022
BooksWork of Human Hands We shouldn’t be fearful of further transformations in the appearance of the Bible. The Word of God can speak as well in a laptop as from a manuscript.By Luke Timothy JohnsonAugust 19, 2022
CollectionsPope Francis at Ten Years A wide-ranging collection of Commonweal’s coverage of the remarkable pontificate of Pope Francis.By The EditorsMarch 12, 2023
