Feature A Whip of Cords How Christians have used the story of Christ and the money changers as a justification for violenceBy Phil KlayMay 2, 2022 War and Peace Arts Religion
Article How the Irish Changed Penance The history behind a group of Irish monks who transformed the sacrament of reconciliationBy John RoddenFebruary 14, 2022 Religion
Article ‘Lived from the Heart’ Understanding mystics and mysticismBy Kenneth L. WoodwardJanuary 19, 2022 Interview Religion
Article Where the Action Is Questions of ministry in the Catholic Church—and who ministers—suggest way to bring Vatican II principles into practice.By Rita FerroneJanuary 5, 2022 Liturgy Religion Women in the Church
Article Not Quite Silenced Newly available records help fill in a half-painted picture of John Courtney Murray. By Susanna De StradisDecember 9, 2021 Religion Vatican
Article I Firmly Resolve I believe that God can always make good from evil. But looking over this past year, what I mostly know is that I didn’t.By B. D. McClayJune 26, 2021 Religion Spirituality The Last Word
PoliticsLock Him Up? Declining to charge Trump for fear of how his supporters might react would concede to him the one thing he’s always wanted: total impunity.By Griffin OleynickAugust 25, 2022
ReligionGood Samaritans? If we were to frame abortion in Samaritan terms, the Dobbs decision returns the wrong issue to the states.By Meghan SullivanAugust 31, 2022
Religion‘There Will Be Surprises’ Pope Francis’s meetings in Rome bring together cardinals from around the world to discuss Curial reform.By Joshua J. McElweeAugust 30, 2022
ReligionEarnest Desire Pope Francis’s letter on liturgical formation challenges and affirms the People of God as a whole. By Rita FerroneAugust 27, 2022
ReligionMaxima Culpa The Church should respond to the horror of unmarked graves in Canadian residential schools with apologies, not evasions.By Matt DinanJuly 15, 2021
CultureThe Paradox of Public Scholarship Public-facing scholarship has become a given for many academics—but at what cost?By Susan Bigelow ReynoldsSeptember 6, 2022
CultureOnly God Could Join Us to God The poet Michael Robbins and theologian David Bentley Hart on Christianity, Yeats, and growing oldBy Michael Robbins & David Bentley HartAugust 30, 2022
BooksWho’s It For? The question “What makes a story ‘good writing’?” can’t be answered until you know who the story is for.By Eve TushnetAugust 7, 2022
CollectionsAbortion After Dobbs Commonweal writers discuss what Dobbs is likely to mean for abortion law, American politics, and the challenge of creating a “culture of life” worthy of the name.By The EditorsAugust 30, 2022
