Podcast

War Without End

On this episode, Phil Klay and Andrew Bacevich reflect on America’s “forever war.”

Foreign Affairs

Greener Pastures

Journalist Gracy Olmstead explains how small farms, and the communities they nurture, could help make life in America fairer and more meaningful.

The Rite Stuff

Rita Ferrone explains the logic—and in her view, the wisdom—of Pope Francis’s decision to largely rescind permission for priests to celebrate the Tridentine Rite.

Second Vatican Council

Life Sentences

For National Book Award winner Alice McDermott, being a writer is a lot like being a believer. You get comfortable living in the dark.

Bishops & Blind Spots

Mollie Wilson O’Reilly speaks about the U.S. bishops’ misguided approach to President Biden, their missteps in responding to Trump, and other missed opportunities.

U.S. Catholicism

The Parson’s Office

Poet and Episcopal priest Spencer Reece speaks about his new memoir, The Secret Gospel of Mark.

Must Reads

Politics

Reckoning with Guantánamo

The continued existence of Guantánamo Bay is unconscionable. So is the fact that it was ever opened in the first place.

September 28, 2021

Religion

‘Always Together’

An excerpt from ‘Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis’

By Pope Francis

September 28, 2021

Culture

In Awe of All People

The late John August Swanson’s ‘Procession’ reminds us that we all walk together, sharing our suffering and our happiness.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

September 30, 2021

Books

‘Sops to Humanity’

Samuel Moyn’s new book demonstrates how a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself.

October 4, 2021

Collections

Confronting Climate Change

Writing from Commonweal on the effects of climate change and our responsibility to care for our common home.

September 20, 2021

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