Interview

Martin Scorsese discusses filmmaking as a gift from God.

Tomáš Halík discusses his life as an underground priest during Communism, renewal in the Church today, and his book 'The Afternoon of Christianity.'

Deeply committed to the principles of Catholic social teaching, Archbishop Roberto González Nieves has been a moral voice on every major social issue in Puerto Rico in the past generation.

Professor and theologian Denys Turner discusses Dante's 'Divine Comedy' as a cohesive poetic and theological text.

The eminent philosopher Charles Taylor discusses Romantic poetry's response to modern disenchantment.

"We’re trying very hard to persuade people who don’t know anything about who we are, or what 'Catholic' stands for, of our values and our identity."

Poet Philip Metres writes for those who have not been welcomed, who have found the way hard and the door closed.

Poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini believed in the importance of being yourself, which means being unrecognizable.

Three authors at the intersection of technology and the Church discuss how theology can inform ethical AI.

Poverty is not inevitable. Matthew Desmond explains the steps we need to take to eradicate it.

A conversation with Jake Heggie, the composer who adapted the story of Sr. Helen Prejean's work against capital punishment as an opera.

April Bernard on her new collection, the poets who inspire her, and the spiritual world that exists behind the material one.

For filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi, Pope Francis is a revolutionary, a man who calls on us to imagine a better world. But being a revolutionary comes with loneliness.

Journalist Jake Bittle on how the changing climate is transforming housing and migration within the United States

El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz speaks with Commonweal about his meeting with Joe Biden—and what leaders in Washington need to know about the reality on the border.

Sociologist Max Holleran urges us to abandon the illusion that the market can offer a comprehensive solution to the affordable housing crisis.

The legendary Catholic philosopher Jean-Luc Marion reflects on his intellectual formation, reform efforts within the Church, and the name of God.

Climate activist and author Bill McKibben on race, inequality, and the intergenerational fight against climate change.

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The poet Ange Mlinko on rhyme, restraint, and roses

An interview with Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow, who challenges the Right’s performative claim on Christian representation.

Philosophers Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko discuss the good life, virtue ethics, and what philosophy can add to a religious person’s life.

Understanding mystics and mysticism

For Jesuit Relief Services executive director Joan Rosenhauer, refugee resettlement and support is the mission at the heart of Catholicism.

An interview with investigative journalist Katie Worth on the way climate change is taught in the United States.

What is the role of the Sant’Egidio community in New York City?

In light of the upcoming USCCB meeting, Bishop John Stowe discusses the role of politics in the Church.

The poet Donald Revell believes that seeing—true seeing, ecstatic seeing—is the poet’s real task.

An interview with Harper’s Magazine editor and novelist Christopher Beha

As Christians, we must love Israelis and Palestinians, and in the name of that love envision a language broad enough to promote the well-being of all.

Remembering the remarkable storyteller, Barry Lopez

Fr. Bryan Massingale speaks about why racism persists in America and the Church: because racist policies and structures benefit white people.

As the number of priests declines, parish-life coordinators like Eleanor Sauers are stepping in to fill administrative and spiritual roles across the country.

An interview with Robert P. Jones examining the relationship of Christianity and white supremacy in America.

Novelist Louise Erdrich’s latest book explores her Catholic and Ojibwe roots as it probes a painful period in recent Native American history.

Garth Greenwell’s new novel plumbs the physicality of queer desire, even as it gestures at the transcendence and sacramentality of sexual experience.