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Politics

The Birth of Social Democracy

Democratic socialism, increasingly appealing to young people today, extends democracy into the economic realm. The idea’s not new; we need to explore its history.

By Gary Dorrien

April 8, 2019

Religion

The Abuse Crisis as Prophecy & Pascha

The only adequate response to the clergy sex-abuse crisis is a paschal response: death to one way of being and resurrection to a truly new way of life.

By Rita Ferrone

April 8, 2019

Culture

Envisioning the Afterlife

What is the afterlife? How do we value lives different from our own? We can’t know what comes next, but philosophy urges us to confront the questions.

By Meghan Sullivan

April 9, 2019

Books

A Relentless Interrogator

A new collection of essays by the famed New Yorker critic Janet Malcolm evinces her winning enthusiasm for the idiosyncratic and esoteric.

By Paul Baumann

March 21, 2019

Books

‘The Mind of Pope Francis’

Pope Francis is a highly original and supple thinker, with a breadth of knowledge accumulated over five decades. A new book fleshes out his intellectual journey.

By J. Matthew Ashley

March 19, 2019

Collections

The Church in Asia

As Christianity and Catholicism expand in Asia, we’ve put together a collection of Commonweal’s best writing on the subject.

By The Editors

April 17, 2019