Matthew Sitman

Article

Gossip & Insight

Edmund White knew that writers were most compelling when exploring a subject they were of two minds about: when they could see it from one angle, then another.

By Matthew Sitman

December 15, 2018

Fiction

Nonfiction

Sexuality

Article

Letting ‘Amoris laetitia’ Be Heard

A gathering in Boston gave a sense of what Pope Francis’s vision of the church in ‘Amoris laetitia’ might actually look like

October 16, 2017

Feature

Saving Calvin from Clichés

Marilynne Robinson's engagement with Calvin remains essential for our own self-understanding as inhabitants of a world he helped create

By Matthew Sitman

October 5, 2017

Ecumenism

Secularism and Modernity

Books

Article

Song without a Story

How does Terrence Malick’s ‘Song to Song’ manage to hit all the wrong notes?

By Matthew Sitman

March 29, 2017

Movies

Music

Article

Liberalism and the Catholic Left

I want to make liberalism’s formal proposals a substantive reality. That entails going beyond its own modest requirements

By Matthew Sitman

December 3, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Philosophy

Book Essay

Article

A Measure of Hope

The midterm elections show that democracy is still very much alive in the United States; but the Democrats need to offer messaging adequate to the moment

November 7, 2018

Must Reads

Politics

The Birth of Social Democracy

Democratic socialism, increasingly appealing to young people today, extends democracy into the economic realm. The idea’s not new; we need to explore its history.

By Gary Dorrien

April 8, 2019

Religion

The Abuse Crisis as Prophecy & Pascha

The only adequate response to the clergy sex-abuse crisis is a paschal response: death to one way of being and resurrection to a truly new way of life.

By Rita Ferrone

April 8, 2019

Culture

Envisioning the Afterlife

What is the afterlife? How do we value lives different from our own? We can’t know what comes next, but philosophy urges us to confront the questions.

By Meghan Sullivan

April 9, 2019

Books

A Relentless Interrogator

A new collection of essays by the famed New Yorker critic Janet Malcolm evinces her winning enthusiasm for the idiosyncratic and esoteric.

By Paul Baumann

March 21, 2019

Books

‘The Mind of Pope Francis’

Pope Francis is a highly original and supple thinker, with a breadth of knowledge accumulated over five decades. A new book fleshes out his intellectual journey.

By J. Matthew Ashley

March 19, 2019

Collections

The Church in Asia

As Christianity and Catholicism expand in Asia, we’ve put together a collection of Commonweal’s best writing on the subject.

By The Editors

April 17, 2019