Paul Baumann

Article

Remembering Paul Horgan

The Catholic director of the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University was also an accomplished novelist and historian

By Paul Baumann

August 21, 2018

Fiction

Books

Article

A Farewell Note

Commonweal's editor reflects on retirement after nearly three decades with the magazine

By Paul Baumann

June 17, 2018

Farewell

Article

Real Time with Ross Douthat

When Ross Douthat is defending Catholicism against the attacks of scoffers like Bill Maher, I feel he is defending my beliefs as well

By Paul Baumann

May 1, 2018

U.S. Catholicism

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Fr. Nonomen

A reflection on the ministry of Fr. John Baran, known as Fr. Nonomen to our readers

May 1, 2018

Feature

A Precarious Unity?

Ross Douthat’s book suggests that unless Pope Francis’s liberalizing agenda is resisted, the church will fall into chaos

March 19, 2018

Article

Strike 3?

Editor Paul Baumann responds to a reader who considers Commonweal “elitist”

February 15, 2018

Must Reads

Politics

The Remnant and the Restless Crowd

A new book by Jonah Goldberg calls for a return to liberal capitalism, but an elitist politics of moderation and insularity won’t solve the problem of inequality

By Sam Adler-Bell

August 1, 2018

Religion

How to Respond to the McCarrick Scandal

The calls for investigations and greater transparency must be accompanied by a large-scale clerical conversion

By Rita Ferrone

August 14, 2018

Culture

In Defense of Brooding

The Swedish director’s invitation to ponder faith, God, life, and death, even for hours at a time, remains the most important part of his legacy

By Santiago Ramos

August 9, 2018

Books

A Choreography of Praise

A profile of the major Irish poet, whose dancing lines sing the joy and jazz of creation

By Anthony Domestico

August 6, 2018

Collections

An Unhealed Wound

From our archives, highlights of a half-century's worth of writing on ‘Humanae Vitae’

By The Editors

June 5, 2018