Matthew Sitman

Article

Public Health v. Culture War

Measures to restrict Mass attendance in a pandemic can be imperfect without being unconstitutional.

By Matthew Sitman

January 4, 2021

Supreme Court

Coronavirus

U.S. Catholicism

Article

Time in the Eternal City

The Church’s mission is not found in grandeur or glory, but as the guardian of tenderness, as a witness to the possibility of mercy.

By Matthew Sitman

December 24, 2020

Spirituality

Theology

Article

The “Weekend at Bernie’s” Primary

The democratic establishment continues to prop up Joe Biden, despite his alarming incoherence and deteriorating mental acumen.

March 3, 2020

Article

Misreading the British Elections

No issue in U.S. politics, not even immigration or “the Wall,” will do for Republicans what Brexit did for the Tories.

December 24, 2019

Article

Preeminent?

The bishops’ insistence on abortion as the preeminent political issue reveals their resistance to Pope Francis’s call to serve the common good in all its complexity.

November 21, 2019

Article

Making the Rich Pay

Studies show that the rich tend to be less empathetic and more selfish. Electoral politics, and policy change, is a promising way to take back what they’ve stolen.

October 30, 2019

Must Reads

Politics

Redemption & Suffering in Joe Biden’s Eulogies

Joe Biden’s Irish-Catholic background and personal experience of suffering have made him an eloquent and empathetic mourner for people across the political spectrum.

By Paul Moses & Michael Connor

November 7, 2020

Religion

The Bundist Rabbi

An organized pursuit of justice is both Michael Feinberg’s work and his passion.

By Fran Quigley

January 2, 2021

Religion

‘Worship of a False God’

Fr. Bryan Massingale speaks about why racism persists in America and the Church: because racist policies and structures benefit white people.

By Regina Munch

December 27, 2020

Culture

‘Our Eucharist Is a Feast’

Both simple and profound, liturgical inculturation reflects the reality that liturgy has always drawn on local cultures.

By Rita Ferrone

January 5, 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

Without God or Reason

Two new collections of Albert Camus’ work reveal the foundations of his future writing.

By Morten Høi Jensen

January 6, 2021

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