On this episode, expat journalist Cole Stangler speaks about how gentrification has transformed the French capital’s working-class and immigrant neighborhoods.
Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House, a shelter serving migrants in El Paso, responds to the lawsuit recently filed by Texas state attorney general Ken Paxton.
Charismatic, combative, and silver-tongued, Fr. Thomas Hagerty waged a life-long struggle for the working class, all while remaining “as Catholic as the pope.”
Thieves, bandits, terrorists, freedom fighters, or revolutionaries: who were the ‘thieves’ crucified with Jesus? It depends on who’s labeled, and doing the labeling.
From 2020: Pope Francis addresses the English-speaking world as the coronavirus pandemic now reaches the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
Contrary to popular belief, the United States fails to live up to its promised values of freedom and fairness. But are those even the worthy ideals to strive toward?
Faith-rooted community organizing, with its emphasis on building relationships and developing practical strategies, can help us think about synodality.
An exhibit at MoMA PS1 teaches visitors to see the cruelty the prison system tries to hide, and to think expansively about a world in which prisons no longer exist.
George Scialabba has provided not just a profound account of depression, but a reminder of how precarious our lives can be, and how much we need each other.
Sr. Simone Campbell talks about how the courage to confront our own brokenness can bring about personal and political healing in this fractured moment.
A collection of Commonweal’s writing about ‘Fratelli tutti,’ Pope Francis’s most recent papal encyclical, including the symposium from the December 2020 issue.
In 1989, eight people were murdered at a Jesuit university in El Salvador. Now, the man who helped orchestrate the killing is finally brought to justice.
