Katherine Lucky

Katherine Lucky is a former managing editor of Commonweal.

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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

Piety, Populism, and ‘Patriots’

Far-right websites catering to Catholics promote Christian nationalism under the guise of journalism.

By Paul Moses

January 8, 2021

Religion

Warnock’s Way

Rev. Raphael Warnock’s victory shows how a new moral majority—multiracial and interfaith—can begin to reclaim faith from the grip of reactionary white Christians.

By John Gehring

January 11, 2021

Culture

COVID Fatigue

“We do what we are supposed to do, walk the stage, say our lines. But the reality is that, even if we hit our marks, many of our patients will not survive.”

By Ebtesam Attaya Islam

January 14, 2021

Books

Apocalypse Now

A collection of essays by Elisa Gabbert explores how we respond collectively and individually to tragedy.

By Katherine Lucky

January 10, 2021

Books

‘Nameless Greatness’

Novelist Louise Erdrich’s latest book explores her Catholic and Ojibwe roots as it probes a painful period in recent Native American history.

By Anthony Domestico

August 7, 2020

Collections

Fratelli Tutti

A collection of Commonweal’s writing about ‘Fratelli tutti,’ Pope Francis’s most recent papal encyclical, including the symposium from the December 2020 issue.

By The Editors

November 17, 2020