Article Art in Natural, Revealed, & Christian Religion: Part 2 Art cannot make a man want to become good, but it can prevent him from imagining that he already isBy Didymus (W.H. Auden)February 14, 2018 Poetry Ethics
Article A Poet Pleads Insanity Whether Ezra Pound is a fascist, a traitor, a madman, or a genius, Daniel Swift argues that he remains undiagnosableBy Eve TushnetFebruary 7, 2018 Books Poetry
Poetry Poem | Wintry Gratitude, an Ode “I hope to die singing two kinds of praise, / the world by which I’m awed, / the majesty of God, / both of which carry Murphy through his days” By Timothy MurphyFebruary 7, 2018 Poetry
Poetry Poem | After Ashbery “Rome, Amsterdam, and God filtering through a pastor’s / meme: Shia Laboeuf rawring JUST DO IT, illuminating / His Most Holy Name” By Danielle ChapmanFebruary 7, 2018 Poetry
Article In the Ruins of New York This was the city / That dressed herself in paper money. / She lived four hundred yearsBy Thomas MertonJanuary 29, 2018 Poetry Secularism and Modernity
Article Elegy for A Trappist “Maybe the martyrology until today / Has found no fitting word to describe you”By Thomas MertonJanuary 29, 2018 Poetry Spirituality
PoliticsMission Accomplished? The missile attacks in Syria won’t deter Assad or salve our consciencesBy The EditorsApril 17, 2018
ReligionThere Are Also Women There Women are usually in the background of papal statements, if they appear at all. Not this timeBy Rita FerroneApril 10, 2018
ReligionGet Rid of the Clergy We should distinguish between the sacrament of orders, which we still need, and the clerical state, which we would be better off withoutBy Joe HollandApril 9, 2018
CultureCheating Death The Silicon Valley entrepreneurs currently waging a war on death should rethink their projectBy Mary McDonoughApril 4, 2018
BooksThose Who Can’t Make Art, Teach Tom Rachman’s wan comedy gestures toward a legacy worth havingBy Katherine MassingerApril 13, 2018
CollectionsA Visual Pilgrimage through Lent A series of spiritual meditations with some help from a different art gallery each week By Griffin OleynickMarch 31, 2018
CollectionsThomas Merton at Commonweal A selection of the monk, poet, and social critic’s spiritual writings from the archivesBy The EditorsJanuary 31, 2018
