Regina Munch

Article

Venerable Beads

I didn’t have a rosary to lend my husband. Which made me wonder: Where do you buy a rosary?

By Regina Munch

December 7, 2018

Spirituality

The Last Word

Article

Halloween and All Saints Mysteries

In entering into the mystery of all saints and all souls, we cannot be sure what we will encounter, but we embrace fear and obscurity even as we hope

By Regina Munch

November 1, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Spirituality

Article

Blood Types

Contrary to long-held romantic narratives, Vampires haunted the most cutting-edge social, theological, political, and medical thinking in enlightened Europe

By Regina Munch

October 31, 2018

Books

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Things Fall Apart

A new book tracks the decline of the American middle class over the past few decades, but offers few solutions for building a better future

September 12, 2018

Article

Bias, ‘Brogrammers’ & Blind Spots

Tech companies are dominated by a very particular type of person, and their influence can affect the culture at large

By Regina Munch

February 21, 2018

Domestic Affairs

Media

Article

Surviving the Last Century

‘What You Did Not Tell’ is a window into the hopes and fears of those who suffered some of the worst calamities of the twentieth century

January 10, 2018

Must Reads

Politics

The Birth of Social Democracy

Democratic socialism, increasingly appealing to young people today, extends democracy into the economic realm. The idea’s not new; we need to explore its history.

By Gary Dorrien

April 8, 2019

Religion

The Abuse Crisis as Prophecy & Pascha

The only adequate response to the clergy sex-abuse crisis is a paschal response: death to one way of being and resurrection to a truly new way of life.

By Rita Ferrone

April 8, 2019

Culture

Envisioning the Afterlife

What is the afterlife? How do we value lives different from our own? We can’t know what comes next, but philosophy urges us to confront the questions.

By Meghan Sullivan

April 9, 2019

Culture

A Joy, Not a Nuisance

People with disabilities present us with a mystery, Jean Vanier once explained; they are the very presence of Jesus. There is something particular in their kindness.

By Michael W. Higgins

December 15, 2015

Books

A Relentless Interrogator

A new collection of essays by the famed New Yorker critic Janet Malcolm evinces her winning enthusiasm for the idiosyncratic and esoteric.

By Paul Baumann

March 21, 2019

Books

‘The Mind of Pope Francis’

Pope Francis is a highly original and supple thinker, with a breadth of knowledge accumulated over five decades. A new book fleshes out his intellectual journey.

By J. Matthew Ashley

March 19, 2019

Collections

The Church in Asia

As Christianity and Catholicism expand in Asia, we’ve put together a collection of Commonweal’s best writing on the subject.

By The Editors

April 17, 2019