Commonweal Centennial

Wilfrid Sheed's recently reissued novel documents life at a sneakily familiar opinion magazine.

"Ceasing to attend to the inner theater and looking instead at the Christian story of death would place Christians where they belong: in the open before their God."

Alejandra Oliva writes on the search for an elusive, "decreated" Simone Weil translator.

Was it any wonder she had been chosen for this task? She was meant for the stage.

Yesterday, in the dark night of the lumbar 4-5 soul (around 2:30 a.m.), when it was clear that there would be no more sleep, I was vouchsafed a vision.

"For me, Holy Week 1971 was unusual. I spent it in jail. As a representative of Commonweal."

To have remained an independent journal of opinion for one hundred years is to have “made history,” and—in Commonweal’s case—impressively so.

Elizabeth Catlett’s art embraced the causes of Mexicans, Black Americans, and all others around the world who were subject to Western imperialism.

John T. McGreevy celebrates Commonweal's hundredth year with a look back.

Professor and theologian Denys Turner discusses Dante's 'Divine Comedy' as a cohesive poetic and theological text.

The Supreme Court's Catholic majority obscures both history and Church teaching to advance its right-wing agenda.

The dream of rescuing democracy from the people has been dreamed—and smashed.

Loving someone is, in part, being their scribe, holding on to their objects as a tribute. But we can't keep everything.

Charles Taylor's 'Cosmic Connections' explores questions of meaning and order beyond what rationalism alone can answer.

Elizabeth Cullinan's recently reissued collection paints a messy, rich, and tragic portrait of Irish-American womanhood.

What does 'Commonweal' offer in this perilous religious and political moment?

"The history of Commonweal is a history of hope and confidence."

A truly Christian postliberalism would imagine and enact an alternative modernity with a different standard of progress.

Gay communities have been havens for expressions of love, selflessness, covenant, and care that were in danger of being lost in the modern world.

It will be the job of Commonweal, as it always has been, to resist the pressures of contemporary secular culture.

What can inspire a return to faith beyond a cultural-fortress mentality?