November 2024

Article

Wives of the Saints

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

By Alice McDermott

November 18, 2024

Commonweal Centennial

Fiction

Women in the Church

Article

Stalked

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.

By Patricia Hampl

November 14, 2024

Death and Dying

Commonweal Centennial

Article

It quickly became clear that getting arrested and sent to jail would be easy. Staying there would not.

Discommoding a Sidewalk

By Peter Steinfels

November 13, 2024

The Last Word

War and Peace

History

Commonweal Centennial

Feature

The Medium Is the Message

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

By Clifford Thompson

November 11, 2024

Arts

Culture

Commonweal Centennial

Race

Article

Purgatorial People

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

By Kenneth L. Woodward

November 8, 2024

Commonweal Centennial

Interview

Literature

Article

Why History Matters Now

… and persisting into the present. As Cathleen Kaveny pointed out recently in Commonweal , …

By James T. Kloppenberg

November 5, 2024

Commonweal Centennial

Supreme Court

Politics

Article

Counsels of Humility

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

By Samuel Moyn

November 4, 2024

Politics

History

Nonfiction

Commonweal Centennial

Article

What Do You Keep?

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

By Dorothy Fortenberry

October 31, 2024

History

Death and Dying

Commonweal Centennial

Article

A Deeper Order

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

By George Scialabba

October 30, 2024

Poetry

Philosophy

Secularism and Modernity

Commonweal Centennial

Article

Tense Necessities

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

By Mary Gordon

October 29, 2024

Commonweal Centennial

Books

Women

Article

We can both “think with the Church” (sentire cum ecclesia) and think with the world at large.

‘Commonweal’ at 100

By The Editors

October 27, 2024

Commonweal Centennial

Editorial

History

Article

Keeping the Windows Open

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

By E. J. Dionne Jr.

October 26, 2024

Commonweal Centennial

Religion

Politics

Feature

Toward a Christian Postliberal Left

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

By Eugene McCarraher

October 25, 2024

Commonweal Centennial

Article

An Alternative History of Gay Liberation

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

By Eve Tushnet

October 24, 2024

LGBTQ issues

Sexuality

Theology

Commonweal Centennial

Feature

Where Secularism Fails

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

By Paul Baumann

October 23, 2024

Religion

Politics

Culture

Commonweal Centennial

Article

‘And You a Catholic!’

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

By Phil Klay

October 18, 2024

Religion

Politics

Culture

Commonweal Centennial

Article

Now You See Her

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

By Alejandra Oliva

November 18, 2024

Commonweal Centennial

Philosophy

Women

Article

A Hundred Years of 'Commonweal'

… Commonweal . No focus group would choose the name. It’s frequently confused with … in 1924 . The models were the Nation and the New Republic , journals of opinion … came after the council. Humanae vitae (1968) provided the first jolt. The editors and …

By John T. McGreevy

November 11, 2024

Commonweal Centennial

History

U.S. Catholicism

Feature

On Death & Resurrection

"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."

By Paul J. Griffiths

October 22, 2024

Religion

Theology

Commonweal Centennial