Katherine Lucky

Katherine Lucky is the Managing Editor of Commonweal. Follow her on Twitter @katherinejlucky.

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Article

The Contagion Escalates

Containing and effectively addressing Coronavirus requires honesty and responsibility from the Chinese government.

February 24, 2020

Article

The Irony of Opioids

The Sackler family is profiting by treating addictions to their own drugs—a darkly ironic indication of the extent of corporate greed and individual powerlessness.

January 30, 2020

Article

Self-Reflection

Recent nonfiction increasingly takes ego as starting point. Jia Tolentino and Leslie Jamison use self-aware essays to examine popular culture and female experience.

By Katherine Lucky

October 9, 2019

Spirituality

Nonfiction

Article

Prayers from the People

For me prayer is concrete, a form of work. Politicians, though, have a different job, and in the wake of mass shootings, they have a duty to take action.

August 12, 2019

Article

Friends & Benefits

I agree with the values of sacrifice and care, and I often find Briallen Hopper’s writing tenacious and lovely. So why did her book leave me not quite satisfied?

June 17, 2019

Article

Baptized in the Charles

By the time I arrived at Harvard, the school was secular, yet haunted by faith. I’d been a practicing Christian for years, but had never been baptized.

By Katherine Lucky

May 24, 2019

Secularism and Modernity

Spirituality

Must Reads

Politics

In the Time of Pandemic

The coronavirus crisis will likely demand the kind of collective sacrifice not seen since World War II. It will also challenge how we live together in society.

By The Editors

March 19, 2020

Religion

Living in Isolation

Even if we cannot get to the Eucharist, we can still enact symbols of communion to fight the destructive effects of isolation.

By Timothy Radcliffe

March 27, 2020

Culture

An Act of Service

Quarantine during a pandemic is not demonic. Few Christians would ask for this cup, but we must drink it—to serve God by serving our neighbors.

By Jared Lucky

March 25, 2020

Books

God of the Continental Philosophers

The fit between phenomenology and Catholic philosophy was never perfect. Thus it could appeal to both Catholic and secular philosophers.

By Sarah Shortall

February 28, 2020

Books

Nothing Left Worth Saving

Set in a miserable dystopia, Houellebecq’s latest novel is both thought-provoking and wearying, fronted by a hypercynical yet dangerously nostalgic narrator.

By Phil Klay

February 27, 2020

Collections

The American Parish Today

The U.S. church is not so much in decline as undergoing a profound transition, a reality we can and should joyfully embrace.

By The Editors

March 27, 2020