Griffin Oleynick

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Griffin Oleynick is an assistant editor and the current John Garvey fellow at Commonweal.

Feature

Sounding the Secret Depths

A new show at the Guggenheim museum showcases Hilma af Klint, a radical Swedish artist whose work pioneered spiritual abstraction

By Griffin Oleynick

December 6, 2018

Article

‘Go and Do Likewise’

The U.S. church may be a long way from practicing synodality, but the Synod on Young People has something to teach us, if only we're willing to listen

By Griffin Oleynick

November 15, 2018

U.S. Catholicism

Article

Can the Word Become a Hashtag?

As the Synod concludes, how can the church be sure that its message is heard online?

By Griffin Oleynick

October 27, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Sexual-abuse Crisis

Article

A Visit to a Roman ‘Field Hospital’

Synod delegates have become increasingly outspoken about young people on the margins, calling particular attention to the suffering of migrants and refugees

By Griffin Oleynick

October 18, 2018

Foreign Affairs

Article

Servant Leadership

Even as more distressing news about the church emerges, the Synod on Young People continues its work in an atmosphere of joy

By Griffin Oleynick

October 12, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

U.S. Catholicism

Article

Greater Than The Sum of Its Parts

Walks through Rome on the eve of the Synod reveal that the church’s unruly irregularity is not a liability, but instead its greatest, most precious asset

By Griffin Oleynick

October 6, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Must Reads

Politics

The Cost of Civilization

A mark of our barbarous times has been a decades-long obsession with cutting taxes, exemplified most recently by the GOP bill signed into law one year ago

January 14, 2019

Religion

The Advent of Freedom

Advent is supposed to be a hopeful time of expectation. But this December, I sat in a hospice room waiting for my mother to die

By John Gehring

December 23, 2018

Religion

Economics as if Theology Mattered

For the church to truly transform global economic life, it needs to practice principles of self-giving, mutuality, and solidarity at the local level

By Daniel K. Finn

December 19, 2018

Culture

Complicated Sounds

A freewheeling memoir from the 1940s explores the underground world of jazz music, forcefully probing both class consciousness and racial identity

By Dominic Preziosi

December 31, 2018

Books

Christmas Critics

Smart reading suggestions for the 2018 holiday season

December 25, 2018

Books

A Literary Omnivore’s Dilemma

When it comes to reading, I am widely, not indiscriminately, enthusiastic. Winnowing down the list to just the titles below has been a challenge

By Anthony Domestico

December 22, 2018

Books

The Blackberry Patch

A short story from a new edition of Andre Dubus's fiction.

October 4, 2018

Collections

Why We Came. Why We Left. Why We Stay.

The Catholic faith is first of all a gift, one a person must choose to keep; the days of Catholicism by default are behind us

December 3, 2018

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