Stephen Hough, one of the world’s greatest musical performers, speaks with us about bioethics, sacramentality, and the challenges of living as a gay Catholic.
Summer’s here, and we’re reading new books by women writers about God, communal religious practice, and the strangeness of American life at the margins.
Fr. Bryan Massingale tells us what Americans shocked at Floyd’s death, particularly white bystanders, need now: the virtue of courage, motivated by righteous anger.
Even as New York shows signs of progress, the toll of the coronavirus has been high. We speak with three people who’ve been dealing with the impact of the pandemic.
Prisoners have been disproportionately harmed by the spread of coronavirus. Progressive district attorneys like Larry Krasner have taken the lead in responding.
How should we answer calls to ‘defund the police’? To start, we must begin meeting urgent social needs instead of reflexively resorting to arrest and prosecution.
Viruses may not be alive, but they are lively. A close look at how they replicate reveals an interconnected picture not just of human life, but of all reality.
For cystic fibrosis patients, recent medical breakthroughs have offered a new life: like Lazarus, they are unwrapping their bandages and re-entering the world.
A new, polyphonic collection with poems by more than a hundred Latinx writers responds to the vexed problem of identity with expansiveness, not reductionism.
COVID-19 has profoundly affected our daily lives. Catch up with some of Commonweal’s best writing on the political and spiritual ramifications of the virus.
