Katherine Lucky

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

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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

Article

Gather ’Round

Slow-paced and built on wildly imaginative premises, Karen Russell’s short stories teach us to approach life’s vicissitudes with curiosity, compassion, and delight.

By Katherine Lucky

April 27, 2019

Fiction

Article

There & Back Again

A collection of stocking stuffers for a commuter you love

December 8, 2018

Must Reads

Politics

When the Laity Led

In Nicaragua, revolutionary hope has given way to resentment and resignation. Can the popular church reclaim its role as the country’s conscience?

By Eileen Markey

October 1, 2019

Religion

When the Amazon Meets the Tiber

What matters at the Amazon synod is not the imperative of universal consistency across all regions of the church, but the pastoral welfare of the People of God.

By Austen Ivereigh

October 9, 2019

Religion

When Americans Become Saints

Men have often tried to shape the stories of holy women to narrow the boundaries of what female holiness can look like. Just look at Elizabeth Seton.

By Mollie Wilson O'Reilly

September 26, 2019

Culture

Saying the Unsayable

Poet and novelist Fanny Howe is an experimental writer’s experimental writer, the author of dozens of books, one who remains publicly, committedly Catholic.

By Anthony Domestico

September 27, 2019

Books

Inescapable Influence

Whether we like it or not, we in the West inhabit a world that remains structured by Christian assumptions and informed by Christian ideas.

By Costica Bradatan

September 30, 2019

Collections

Fiction in Commonweal

To celebrate the publication our summer fiction issue, a new collection of short stories from our archives.

By The Editors

July 30, 2019

Collections

Labor & the Catholic Church

Commonweal writers have long engaged with the church’s stance on labor rights, worker justice, and income inequality. Here are the best pieces from our archives.

By The Editors

July 10, 2019