Launched in 2024 as part of our centennial celebration, the Commonweal Prize for Short Fiction recognizes original and outstanding short fiction from emerging writers.
The Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good hosted the Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton Culture and the Public Good Symposium at Notre Dame.
Moderated by editor Dominic Preziosi, three journalists weigh in on Pope Leo’s first year as part of the annual Cardinal Bernardin Common Cause Lecture series.
‘Commonweal’ Announces Rev. John I. Jenkins, CSC, President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, as Recipient of the 2026 Commonweal Centennial Award
With three decades of experience covering religion, politics, and issues of social and cultural import, the award-winning journalist and columnist will help expand the magazine's regular coverage of these areas.
Launched last year as part of our centennial celebration, the Commonweal Prize for Short Fiction recognizes original and outstanding short fiction from emerging writers.
O’Reilly urged listeners to temper their immediate expectations: even if there are encouraging signs, it is too early to tell when and where Pope Leo will push back on Trump, Vance, or the American right.
The wide-ranging dialogue focused on the position of Latinos in U.S. public life, both ecclesial and political, during an especially challenging moment in contemporary politics.
Even the most-informed Vaticanologists, O'Reilly writes, ultimately have no clue who will step out onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Square in just a few days.
Commonweal contributor Prof. Dan Rober joined WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show to discuss Pope Francis’s love of film, the upcoming conclave, what cardinals might be looking for in a future pope, and Catholicism’s contemporary culture wars.
Host Brigid Bergin had a wide-ranging conversation with Preziosi about the magazine’s mission, history, and role in a Church marred by political and cultural crises.
With guest judge Vinson Cunningham, staff writer at the 'New Yorker,' finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, and author of 'Great Expectations'
Moses and reporter Tom Robbins held a wide-ranging, hour-long discussion on Mendendez’s political career and early years as a political acolyte of Union City mayor Bill Musto.
Join Commonweal to celebrate Danielle Chapman's latest poetry collection, 'Boxed Juice,' as Pádraig Ó Tuama previews his new collection, 'Kitchen Hymns.'
“The Trump era is going to make our message more important, more urgent,” Koneck said. “I won’t be doing my job if nobody finds us who is looking for a compelling voice from the religious left—or even the religious center.”
Koneck argued that religious institutions like the Church should see the spirituality of young people as an opportunity for renewal, learning, and dialogue.
“Not only do we have a capacious Church and an important Church, but we also have a Church guided by the Holy Spirit," Koneck said. "Which is why no matter how paralyzing the headline, I cannot bring myself to fret.”
Alice McDermott calls O’Brien’s short story “a marvelously constructed tale, Escher-like in its emotional complexity as well as its disorienting realism.”
Koneck discussed Commonweal’s unique relationship to the institutional Church, and the freedom that the magazine’s independence affords it in reaching out to young Catholics.
The summit organizers stated that the initiative needed to facilitate a space that would allow for the formation of alliances across institutions and ideological boundaries.
National Catholic Reporter’s Chris White, a participant at the gathering, described the event as a “synodal laboratory” modeled on the Vatican’s synodal hall.
