Amirah Orozco

Amirah Orozco is a PhD Student in Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame and received her MTS from Boston College School of Theology and Ministry and a Bachelor’s in Philosophy from Boston College as well.

Article

Let Me Struggle

"This Laetare Sunday, then, I do want to focus on God’s love and my sins in light of God’s love, but not to the point of apathy, and instead to the point of further struggle."

By Amirah Orozco

March 8, 2024

Lent

Spirituality

Middle East

Article

Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Lent

This Lent, I pray that I might be converted to follow the example set by Jesus of a righteous passion that moves us to act in the face of death.

By Amirah Orozco

March 26, 2023

Feature

Learning from Las Hermanas

Looking back at Las Hermanas’ role in the three Encuentros can help those committed to synodality better understand the task ahead.

By Amirah Orozco

January 10, 2022

Must Reads

Politics

How to Stop Hating Trump Supporters

How do we learn to love our neighbors who defend the indefensible?

Stephen J. Pope

March 3, 2025

Religion

How Much Must the Church Change?

Tomáš Halík’s new book directly challenges the conservative wing of the Church and radicalizes Pope Francis’s thought.

Paul Lakeland

February 26, 2025

Culture

Woke 2.0

Musa al-Gharbi's new book traces the rise of a new "woke" elite. His diagnosis minimizes the power of genuine elites: plutocrats.

George Scialabba

March 6, 2025

Books

Long Horizons

All of Bruce Chatwin's work is an effort to understand people who find themselves at the end of a way of being.

Helen Rouner

March 14, 2025

Collections

Toward Nuclear Disarmament?

Is nuclear deterrence the foundation of our national security, or is it an unnecessary expenditure dedicated to inexcusable potential violence? Commonweal authors debate nuclear deterrence versus disarmament.

The Editors

April 1, 2025