Griffin Oleynick

Griffin Oleynick is an assistant editor at Commonweal.

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Feature

The Video Art of Bill Viola

A new show at the Barnes in Philadelphia transports audiences into the heart of the Bill Viola’s pioneering inquiries into the phenomenon of visual perception.

September 2, 2019

Article

‘That All May Be One’

Two films by the late Italian director Ermanno Olmi reveal his abiding interest in Catholicism as an antidote to the spiritual emptiness of modernity.

July 4, 2019

Article

Resurrection without Redemption

Abel Ferrara’s new biopic about Pier Paolo Pasolini evinces a highly personal, anti-institutional strain of Catholicism—where grace abounds in squalor and scandal.

June 17, 2019

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

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

November 15, 2018

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

Must Reads

Politics

William Barr, Unbound

Attorney General William Barr is a disgrace, subordinating the impartiality and professionalism of the Justice Department to President Trump’s political needs.

By The Editors

May 21, 2020

Religion

Viganò & the Virus

The latest manifesto from archbishop Viganò descends into intellectual and moral farce, when what the world really needs from the church is true gravitas.

By Massimo Faggioli

May 20, 2020

Culture

‘Me Hearing Me’

Choral singing is one thing I love that I can’t replicate online, that I just have to miss. What a grief. And what a reassurance.

By Katherine Lucky

May 26, 2020

Books

The God Trick

We are far past Peak Rawls. A new book undoes the pretension to timelessness that the philosopher once claimed.

By Susan McWilliams Barndt

May 11, 2020

Collections

The Coronavirus

COVID-19 has profoundly affected our daily lives. Catch up with some of Commonweal’s best writing on the political and spiritual ramifications of the virus.

By The Editors

April 21, 2020