Matthew Sitman

Matthew Sitman is an associate editor of Commonweal. You can follow him on Twitter.

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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.

By Matthew Sitman

November 21, 2019

U.S. Catholicism

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.

By Matthew Sitman

October 30, 2019

Article

Helping & Hurting

The first Democratic debates featured a flawed format. The progressive vision of Sanders and Warren set the tone, but Harris, Buttigieg, and Castro also stood out.

By Matthew Sitman

June 28, 2019

Domestic Affairs

Foreign Affairs

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

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

By Matthew Sitman

October 16, 2017

U.S. Catholicism

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

Secularism and Modernity

Must Reads

Politics

Visionary Gradualist Pressure

To Michael Harrington, socialism was the idea of a society in which certain fundamental limitations of human existence are transcended.

By Gary Dorrien

September 8, 2021

Religion

A Beautiful Day, A Horrible Event

From the archives: Faith in the Resurrection does not cancel out what happens on the cross; the cross is its beginning.

September 11, 2021

Religion

The Limits of ‘Traditionis Custodes’

Anti–Vatican II traditionalism won’t just disappear by papal fiat.

By Massimo Faggioli

September 2, 2021

Culture

The Same Anew

The poet Donald Revell believes that seeing—true seeing, ecstatic seeing—is the poet’s real task.

By Anthony Domestico

September 2, 2021

Culture

There Ought to Be a Law

The law is one thing, morality another. Conflating them flattens our public morality into a deadening binary.

By Matthew Boudway

May 24, 2021

Books

Learning What to Want

Not all aesthetic consumption is equal, and developing the ability to judge the art we encounter can help transform us.

September 8, 2021

Collections

Confronting Climate Change

Writing from Commonweal on the effects of climate change and our responsibility to care for our common home.

September 20, 2021

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