Claudia Avila Cosnahan

Claudia Avila Cosnahan is the Mission & Partnerships Director for Commonweal and an instructor and consultant for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

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Lalo Alcaraz Comes Home

An exhibition celebrates Lalo Alcaraz—the author of the first Latino-themed nationally syndicated political comic strip. It’s classic Alcaraz: direct and very funny.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

March 25, 2023

Article

A Reflection for the Second Sunday of Lent

Remembering the deceased is an act of hope. Sharing our faith and experiences together can pull us out of the darkness and into the beauty of Jesus’ life.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

March 5, 2023

Death and Dying

Article

Peace, Love & P-22

“The Advent season prepares us to see the incarnation with the Passion in mind. God is all-powerful and in the incarnation is all-vulnerable. Both things are true.”

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

December 17, 2022

Article

Advent Wind

The images of wind, water, and fire in this Sunday’s Advent Gospel reading invite us to consider what needs cleansing within us.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

December 3, 2022

Article

Awake From Sleep

Two months after contracting Covid, the brain fog refuses to lift. The first Sunday of Advent’s readings call me to pray for wakefulness and clarity.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

November 26, 2022

Article

Joyful Palms & Crying Stones

Palm Sunday reminds us that some joys cannot be experienced until we have first experienced sorrow.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

April 10, 2022

Must Reads

Politics

How Not to Defend Liberalism

Technocratic neoliberalism is not the rightful heir of the liberal tradition, but an anti-democratic distortion of it.

By Alexander Stern

September 14, 2023

Religion

Bringing Mass to a Migrant Camp

“In a migrant camp, liturgy is an act of bricolage.”

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

September 1, 2023

Culture

Dancing Around Death

A new exhibit brings together Tibetan Buddhist and European Christian art, inviting visitors to ponder their ambivalence surrounding death.

September 14, 2023

Books

Helen Keller, Christian Socialist

Helen Keller's public image is benignly inspiring. A new book digs into her identity as a radical Leftist whose politics were rooted in her faith.

September 13, 2023

Collections

Confronting Climate Change

Writing from Commonweal on the effects of climate change and our responsibility to care for our common home.

September 20, 2021

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