Griffin Oleynick

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

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

Media

Secularism and Modernity

Bishops

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

October 18, 2018

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

Bishops

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

October 6, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Article

A Listening Church

Despite the lack of attention from many Catholics, the stakes at the synod on young people really couldn’t be higher

October 1, 2018

Feature

Modeling Mystery

A new exhibition at the Guggenheim represents a homecoming for the Swiss-born sculptor

By Griffin Oleynick

July 1, 2018

Art

Spirituality

Secularism and Modernity

Must Reads

Politics

A Measure of Hope

The midterm elections show that democracy is still very much alive in the United States; but the Democrats need to offer messaging adequate to the moment

By Matthew Sitman

November 7, 2018

Religion

Our Myth, Their Lie

At the root of the sex abuse crisis is structure, the way church governance has calcified in past centuries; that structure has to go

By James J. Heaney

November 1, 2018

Culture

Peace on Murder Mile

Rev. Bill Shaw, a Presbyterian minister in a Catholic neighborhood of Belfast, is working to soothe generations of sectarian strife.

By Philip Metres

October 14, 2018

Culture

Nasty Woman

There was always anger at assault allegations: touching, drugging, choking; at pay gaps, at locker-room talk. But the anger I’m feeling has changed—for the worse

By Katherine Lucky

October 4, 2018

Books

Blood Types

Contrary to long-held romantic narratives, Vampires haunted the most cutting-edge social, theological, political, and medical thinking in enlightened Europe

By Regina Munch

October 31, 2018

Collections

The Church That Has to Come

A series of reported reflections from Rome, where bishops and young people are gathering this October to discuss the future of the church

By Griffin Oleynick

October 16, 2018