Must Reads

Religion

St. John Henry Newman

The distrustful self-witholding of the postmodern self is the very opposite of John Henry Newman’s turbulent love affair with truth.
By Austen Ivereigh
October 12, 2019
Religion

When the Amazon Meets the Tiber

What matters at the Amazon synod is not the imperative of universal consistency across all regions of the church, but the pastoral welfare of the People of God.
By Austen Ivereigh
October 9, 2019
Culture

Saying the Unsayable

Poet and novelist Fanny Howe is an experimental writer’s experimental writer, the author of dozens of books, one who remains publicly, committedly Catholic.
By Anthony Domestico
September 27, 2019
Culture

‘Emotional Archaeology’

Famed documentarian Ken Burns traces the long and complex history of country music, revealing old American tensions between personal and collective freedom.
By Cole Stangler
September 13, 2019
Books

Self-Reflection

Recent nonfiction increasingly takes ego as starting point. Jia Tolentino and Leslie Jamison use self-aware essays to examine popular culture and female experience.
By Katherine Lucky
October 9, 2019
Collections

Fiction in Commonweal

To celebrate the publication our summer fiction issue, a new collection of short stories from our archives.
By The Editors
July 30, 2019
Collections

Labor & the Catholic Church

Commonweal writers have long engaged with the church’s stance on labor rights, worker justice, and income inequality. Here are the best pieces from our archives.
By The Editors
July 10, 2019
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