Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

Mollie Wilson O’Reilly is editor-at-large and columnist at Commonweal.

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Child Labor Isn’t in the Past

We can’t afford to play dumb as labor protections fail and disappear. Treating children like cheap labor costs too much.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

August 6, 2023

Domestic Affairs

Article

False Flags

The controversy at Nativity School shows how the Church has allied itself with discrimination, undermining its credibility and failing to live up to its values.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

July 5, 2022

U.S. Catholicism

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When Abortion Isn’t Abortion

The practical, legal, and medical realities of abortion overlap in complicated ways.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

March 21, 2022

Women in the Church

Article

Struggling to Listen

Archbishop José Gomez’s statement reflects a reactionary vision, one based in fear rather than love.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

November 17, 2021

U.S. Catholicism

Article

Much Obliged

Too often during the pandemic, the Church encouraged us to resent the inconveniences of social distancing instead of supporting us in bearing this cross together.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

August 31, 2021

U.S. Catholicism

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Women’s Work

The Vatican keeps telling bishops that they can allow women to serve. It stops short, even now, of telling them that they should.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

January 26, 2021

Women in the Church

Must Reads

Politics

How Not to Defend Liberalism

Technocratic neoliberalism is not the rightful heir of the liberal tradition, but an anti-democratic distortion of it.

By Alexander Stern

September 14, 2023

Religion

Bringing Mass to a Migrant Camp

“In a migrant camp, liturgy is an act of bricolage.”

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

September 1, 2023

Culture

Dancing Around Death

A new exhibit brings together Tibetan Buddhist and European Christian art, inviting visitors to ponder their ambivalence surrounding death.

September 14, 2023

Books

Helen Keller, Christian Socialist

Helen Keller's public image is benignly inspiring. A new book digs into her identity as a radical Leftist whose politics were rooted in her faith.

September 13, 2023

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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