Paul Baumann

"I worked with Patrick Jordan at Commonweal for more than twenty years. Pat was one of the most decent people I have ever known."

We are always surrounded by suffering, and even death, as we go about our mundane errands.

Cradle Catholics are defecting from the faith in extraordinary numbers. Are cohesive religious communities the answer?

Every few months, some self-styled orthodox Catholic declares the exhaustion of liberal Catholicism. Rarely has a death notice been written so often for a corpse that stubbornly refuses to be interred.

To ignore the Catholic dimensions of 'The Great Gatsby,' as so much criticism does, diminishes its uncanny power.

As Sam Tanenhaus shows in his new biography, William F. Buckley was essentially a performer, “a debater, not a thinker.”