Nick Scrimenti

Nick Scrimenti is a freelance writer and a master's student at Harvard Divinity School.

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Ways of Heaven

With the release of Terrence Malick’s Jägerstätter biopic, the martyr’s biography has finally come into broader public view. But his sacramental devotions haven’t.

January 11, 2020

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No Man Is an Island

Thomas Merton taught me to value self-denial, but a bout of depression forced me to question whether asceticism was the healthiest response to my life.

August 24, 2019

Must Reads

Politics

Socialism or Feudalism

In today’s hypercapitalist society, the rich don’t just get richer. They accumulate more political power as they bend laws to their will.

By Frank Pasquale

June 15, 2020

Religion

A Different Kind of Catholic

Longtime peace activist Martin Gugino represents a face of Catholicism that Donald Trump would not know from the ‘powerful’ Catholics around him.

By Paul Moses

June 16, 2020

Culture

Working for Justice Means Taking Sides

Defending racist and violent policing as the result of individual “bad apples” doesn’t just obscure larger systemic problems. It hinders the pursuit of justice.

By Mollie Wilson O'Reilly

June 9, 2020

Books

Home Songs

A new, polyphonic collection with poems by more than a hundred Latinx writers responds to the vexed problem of identity with expansiveness, not reductionism.

By Isabella Simon

June 12, 2020

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The Coronavirus

COVID-19 has profoundly affected our daily lives. Catch up with some of Commonweal’s best writing on the political and spiritual ramifications of the virus.

By The Editors

April 21, 2020