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For the first time in the 100-year history of the magazine, readers can download issues from the archive directly from the Commonweal website.

The benefit dinner celebrated 100 years of Commonweal's continuous publication, and featured many Fordham friends and alumni.

Written by former 'Commonweal' managing editor Patrick Jordan, the article reflects on the enduring connection between the two publications.

“What does it mean to be a leading intellectual voice of liberal Roman Catholicism?”

The Centennial Benefit Dinner provided an opportunity for 'Commonweal' to articulate its goals for the immediate and long-term future.

The podcast invites scholars from around the country to explore the relationship between their faith and their roles as academics.

Alice McDermott calls O’Brien’s short story “a marvelously constructed tale, Escher-like in its emotional complexity as well as its disorienting realism.”

The first day of sessions began with a message from Pope Francis.

Commonweal will honor Tetlow at its Centennial Benefit Dinner at Chelsea Piers in New York City on October 28, 2024.

The summit organizers stated that the initiative needed to facilitate a space that would allow for the formation of alliances across institutions and ideological boundaries.

Cardinal Pierre’s presentation was titled, “Pope Francis: Discernment and the Dialectic of Mercy.”

National Catholic Reporter’s Chris White, a participant at the gathering, described the event as a “synodal laboratory” modeled on the Vatican’s synodal hall.

She invited participants to become more interested in the nuances of identity when setting pastoral priorities.

Despite the cold, nearly 50 people gathered for the occasion to hear Wiman and Boudway discuss the new book.

Readers, writers, editors, staff, board members, and new friends gathered until the restaurant was closing down and locking up.

‘Commonweal’ is recognized with the Gaudium Award of Merit for its joyful and creative commitment to good works.

The conversation included a reading from Danielle and a Q&A about 'Holler,' a memoir "as devastating as American history itself."

Conference participants explored restorative justice as a means of flourishing and renewal, both in the Church and beyond.

'Only a Voice' draws together essays on politics, power, and culture from a diverse group of thinkers, artists, activists, and philosophers.

“I would like to offer the possibility that polarization has been the defining experience of U.S. Catholics for the past 50 years, but that alienation is the defining experience of young people.”

Kayla August, César “CJ” Baldelomar, Nicholas Fagnant, and Brenda Noriega join ‘Commonweal’ as writing fellows to explore and report on how synodality is lived out in the United States.

Cathleen Kaveny will visit colleges across the country to exchange ideas and offer lectures on American nationalism, civil liberties, and freedom of conscience after 'Dobbs v. Jackson.'