Katherine Lucky

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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There & Back Again

A collection of stocking stuffers for a commuter you love

December 8, 2018

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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

Sexuality

Gender

Must Reads

Politics

Cross the Bridge

The border crisis could provide an occasion for the bishops to show that they are more than just company men—if only they would seize the opportunity.

By The Editors

August 7, 2019

Religion

Body Parts

The veneration of relics is a hard thing for many Catholics of this time and culture to wrap their minds around. But the practice is humanizing, not superstitious.

By Paul Baumann

August 8, 2019

Culture

Where We Could Go

The best part of the 2019 Whitney Biennial? The growing number of artists who have withdrawn their works in protest of a controversial board member.

By Nicole-Ann Lobo

July 24, 2019

Culture

Mountains, not Screens

Nature provides what technology can’t give. We must remember our responsibility to heal the planet, but we shouldn’t forget its ability to heal us.

By Isabella Simon

July 20, 2019

Books

Danses Macabres

A pair of German novels explore the ways societies rationalize their butchery, revisiting the entire history of twentieth-century Europe.

By John Cotter

August 1, 2019

Books

Throne & Altar

The idea of religious liberty was not simply the product of the Enlightenment. It has ancient origins, going back to early Christians suffering persecution in Rome.

By Francis Oakley

July 31, 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