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 Coming Populist Showdown

Successful Democratic candidates will be unapologetic in their embrace of multiracial democracy and just as fierce in their denouncement of plutocrats

By Sam Adler-Bell

March 4, 2019

Religion

Why I Left the Church...and Returned

The Catholic Church today is in crisis. But it is not the hierarchy alone who belong in sackcloth and ashes, begging forgiveness; all of us must become penitents.

By Kathleen Hill

February 25, 2019

Culture

Giving Up Extremes

As Lent approaches, I’ve been in a state of spiritual anxiety over the inevitable renunciation that the season demands. God wants harmonious balance, not excess

By Nicole-Ann Lobo

March 3, 2019

Books

From Trotsky to Soros

What does violence in Charlottesville and Pittsburgh have to do with WWI-era Moscow? A new book details the destructive power of anti-Semitic myths

By James J. Sheehan

February 27, 2019

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

Collections

Meeting the Stranger

A Catholic response to refugees and immigration through the pages of Commonweal

February 14, 2018

Collections

Catholic Social Justice

How do we define what social justice is? How have Catholics understood it, and what can we do today?

October 23, 2017

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