Paul Baumann

Article

Keeping It Together

Progressive and conservative Catholics should both seek to avoid deepening fractures in the Church.

By Paul Baumann

May 25, 2021

Bishops

Pope Francis

U.S. Catholicism

Article

From Buckley to Trump

The conservatism of William F. Buckley Jr., the “larger-than-life” editor of the National Review, shaped our current political climate.

By Paul Baumann

May 6, 2021

Domestic Affairs

Article

The Beauty of the Incomprehensible

In her new book, Karen Kilby leads even a lay reader through theoretical thickets with a gentle and steady hand.

By Paul Baumann

April 20, 2021

Theology

Books

Article

Torments & Frenzies

Graham Greene’s life is both more interesting and more nuanced than the New Yorker appears to believe.

By Paul Baumann

March 31, 2021

biography

Media

Article

Sound Views

Reflections from the beaches overlooking Long Island Sound.

By Paul Baumann

February 26, 2021

Article

Biden the Catholic, Part Two

Some conservative Catholics and U.S. bishops are eager to exploit any controversy over Biden’s Catholicism, but in doing so they reveal their hypocrisy.

February 10, 2021

Must Reads

Politics

From Here to Utopia

The political aims of the Left cannot be effectively advanced if our crisis of social belonging and identity is neglected.

By David Albertson & Jason Blakely

May 24, 2021

Religion

The Long Game

A Church of authentic synodality, which walks together, listens, and brings mercy to all we encounter, is one that never forgets our wounded parts.

By Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin

June 1, 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

Beyond the Gummed Labels

Fault lines between Secularists and Religionists in America help define partisan politics.

By Kenneth L. Woodward

June 4, 2021

Collections

National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we’re collecting poems and writings about poetry, with new additions by our literary critic every Friday.

By The Editors

April 7, 2021

Collections

Labor & the Catholic Church

Commonweal writers have long engaged with the church’s stance on labor rights, worker justice, and income inequality. Here are the best pieces from our archives.

By The Editors

July 10, 2019