Regina Munch

Article

HEROES & Cheapskates

For millions, the pandemic has meant serious deprivation: not enough food, too many medical bills, the loss of a business, the prospect of losing one’s home.

By Regina Munch

August 26, 2020

Article

Moved with Pity

I didn’t realize how hard it would be to see people attending Mass this way. Faces I’ve known for years, obscured for protection. Suddenly, we were all very fragile.

August 10, 2020

Article

‘Worship of a False God’

Fr. Bryan Massingale speaks about why racism persists in America and the Church: because racist policies and structures benefit white people.

June 5, 2020

Article

Tara Reade & #MeToo

A proper DNC inquiry is just what’s needed to give Reade’s allegation the full attention it deserves. Why be so afraid to carry one out?

By Regina Munch

May 26, 2020

Election 2020

Domestic Affairs

Article

New Ways to Worship

As it changes familiar rituals, the pandemic can help us consider how to bring the Church into our daily lives and relationships.

April 27, 2020

Article

The Horror Story in Syria

As the humanitarian situation in Syria worsens, more refugees are attempting to cross Turkey’s eastern border. European leaders have let them down.

March 16, 2020

Must Reads

Politics

Canons & the Candidate

Claiming that Joe Biden does not deserve to receive Communion misinterprets canon law and reduces Catholic theology to a partisan political weapon.

By Nicholas P. Cafardi

September 14, 2020

Religion

Is There a Religious Left?

The Religious Left has been here all along, engaging in protests and helping the vulnerable, a coalition of coalitions not tied to a single faith or set of policies.

By Kaya Oakes

September 7, 2020

Culture

Summer Readings & Screenings

Faith in God is an absurdity, as is Christ himself, and the believer must boldly, absurdly choose Christ anyway, again and again and again.

By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

August 20, 2020

Culture

Savers and Unloaders

Physical objects carry meaning for us, but their accumulation can be a kind of spiritual error. Reconciling this contradiction leads us to richer, deeper lives.

By Rand Richards Cooper

August 20, 2020

Culture

The Last Shakers?

The Shakers, who arrived in America in 1774, are a religious community facing extinction. Their decline means nothing less than the end of an idea of heaven.

By Katherine Lucky

November 28, 2019

Books

‘Nameless Greatness’

Novelist Louise Erdrich’s latest book explores her Catholic and Ojibwe roots as it probes a painful period in recent Native American history.

By Anthony Domestico

August 7, 2020

Collections

The Coronavirus

COVID-19 has profoundly affected our daily lives. Catch up with some of Commonweal’s best writing on the political and spiritual ramifications of the virus.

By The Editors

April 21, 2020