Regina Munch

Article

Migrants in Limbo

We need a truly international reckoning with the fact of mass migration, one in which wealthy countries actually confront climate change and food insecurity.

By Regina Munch

September 25, 2019

Article

Cruelty’s the Point

The retrial of humanitarian border activist Scott Warren raises frightening concerns for all who would help migrants. A conviction would set a dangerous precedent.

July 11, 2019

Article

A Textbook Case

A lot of people fancy themselves history buffs, obsessing over names, dates, and numbers. But facts aren’t narratives. And history can’t be learned from a phone.

May 16, 2019

Article

In Tech We Trust?

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood are an unlikely group of Amazon shareholders, but they’re forcing a vote on the company’s facial recognition software.

May 9, 2019

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

Must Reads

Politics

Migrants in Limbo

We need a truly international reckoning with the fact of mass migration, one in which wealthy countries actually confront climate change and food insecurity.

By Regina Munch

September 25, 2019

Religion

When Americans Become Saints

Men have often tried to shape the stories of holy women to narrow the boundaries of what female holiness can look like. Just look at Elizabeth Seton.

By Mollie Wilson O'Reilly

September 26, 2019

Religion

In Praise of Fragments

Fr. David Tracy, widely regarded as one of the most creative and influential theologians of the past half-century, speaks about his life and work.

By Kenneth L. Woodward

September 25, 2019

Culture

Fanny Howe’s Ordinary Mysticism

Poet and novelist Fanny Howe is an experimental writer’s experimental writer, the author of dozens of books, one who remains publicly, committedly Catholic.

By Anthony Domestico

September 27, 2019

Books

Inescapable Influence

Whether we like it or not, we in the West inhabit a world that remains structured by Christian assumptions and informed by Christian ideas.

By Costica Bradatan

September 30, 2019

Collections

Fiction in Commonweal

To celebrate the publication our summer fiction issue, a new collection of short stories from our archives.

By The Editors

July 30, 2019

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