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Article

Exposing the Spirits

The synod on the Amazon will be remembered as the moment that bishops gathered in Rome asked the pope to ordain married men in order better to serve the poor.

By Austen Ivereigh

November 1, 2019

Pope Francis

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Confronting White Supremacy

Words like ‘racism’ and ‘white supremacy’ make people uncomfortable. But as El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz points out in a new letter, we must reckon with them.

October 19, 2019

Borderlands & Barrios

We talk to Benjamin Francis-Fallon about his new book, The Rise of the Latino Vote. And the Commonweal staff speaks about what they witnessed at the border in El Paso, Texas.

Article

Some Hope on Columbus Day

Ultimately, prejudice is defeated not so much by institutions as by individuals.

By Paul Moses

October 14, 2019

Race

Domestic Affairs

Immigration

Article

Liberator & Tyrant

Educated by Irish Catholic missionaries, Robert Mugabe helped Zimbabwe create a new middle class. But in his refusal to relinquish power, he committed atrocities.

September 19, 2019

Article

Emotional Archaeology

Famed documentarian Ken Burns traces the long and complex history of country music, revealing old American tensions between personal and collective freedom.

September 13, 2019

Must Reads

Politics

Global Protests & Income Inequality

This year seems unusual, both for the number and scale of protests across the world. What links them is the growing demand for greater income equality.

By The Editors

November 21, 2019

Religion

Preeminent?

The bishops’ insistence on abortion as the preeminent political issue reveals their resistance to Pope Francis’s call to serve the common good in all its complexity.

By Matthew Sitman

November 21, 2019

Culture

St. Ephrem’s Lament

The territory along the Syrian-Turkish border is the ancestral homeland of an ancient tradition of Aramaic-speaking Christianity. They’ve been betrayed before.

By Joseph Amar

November 19, 2019

Books

Ask the Dust

Masada is not just a significant site for the history of Second Temple Judaism. Its story also exerts a powerful hold on the modern state of Israel.

By Mahri Leonard-Fleckman

November 11, 2019

Collections

Injustice at the Border

The suffering of migrants and refugees on the border cannot be forgotten. Nor can the Trump administration’s deliberate cruelty toward them.

By The Editors

October 28, 2019