Margaret O’Brien Steinfels, Contributing Writer
Margaret O’Brien Steinfels served as Commonweal’s editor, 1988-2002, was co-director of its “American Catholics in the Public Square Project,” and continues as a columnist and reviewer. She retired from Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture in 2012. Before all of that, she was editor of the Hastings Center Report, Christianity and Crisis, and Church magazine. She favors using a comma before and in a series, and loves semi-colons.