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IssueVol. 148 Issue 008 (September 1 2021)
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Paid articleLetters
The bishops & pro-choice politicians I agree with the editors of Commonweal that USCCB president Archbishop José Gomez’s ill-considered response to the election of Joe Biden invites the...
Paid articleLebanon's freefall
Amar, Joseph
Since it was first identified in India in December 2020, the Delta variant has spread to more than one hundred thirty countries. Having already wreaked havoc elsewhere, including India and the...
Paid articleEliminating emissions
Simon, Isabella
Eliminating Emissions It is no longer politically popular to pretend, despite decades of evidence to the contrary, that global warming is a hoax or a phenomenon unconnected to human...
Paid articleMass dispensations
O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson
Much Obliged Cardinal Dolan’s non-dispensation The Archdiocese of Atlanta officially welcomed the faithful back to Mass for the Feast of Pentecost on May 22. The Catholic Conference of Ohio...
Paid articleRemembering Fr. Stan Swamy
McGowan, Jo
The Dalit Theologian Remembering Fr. Stan Swamy The Jesuit priest Fr. Stan Swamy died while in police custody in India on July 5. He had been arrested for terrorist activities, a charge both he...
Paid articleThe Pillar & Msgr. Burrill
Moses, Paul
Give It an ‘F’ The Pillar’s Burrill story flunks journalistic standards. It’s odd to see Catholic media take a starring role in the ongoing saga of the breakdown in traditional journalistic...
Paid articleCanadian residential schools
Dinan, Matt
Maxima Culpa Catholic complicity and Canadian residential schools On May 24, 2021, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in the Canadian province of British Columbia announced that it had...
Paid articleTraditionis custodes
Ferrone, Rita
A Living Catholic Tradition Pope Francis unifies the Roman Rite. July 16, 2021 was a great day for the Roman Rite and for the legacy of the Second Vatican Council. Finally, after years of...
Paid articleThe bishops, the Eucharist & abortion
Steinfels, Peter
Separate Challenges Peter Steinfels The bishops, the Eucharist, and abortion The American bishops have two teaching challenges. One is about the Eucharist. The other is about abortion. They are...
Paid articleA sanctioned crisis in Cuba
Gordon, Joy
A Sanctioned Crisis Joy Gordon The United States’s role in Cuba’s economic collapse The recent demonstrations in Cuba have been met with excitement by Cuban Americans in Miami hoping for the...
Paid articleMichael Harrington's democratic socialism
Dorrien, Gary
Visionary Gradualist Pressure Gary Dorrien Michael Harrington’s democratic socialism In February 1973, Michael Harrington convened a weekend conference on “The Future of the Democratic Left”...
Paid articleAllen v. Farrow and Consent
Gold, Hannah
36 commonweal Hannah Gold Allen v. Farrow and Consent Nobody asks themselves whether it’s possible to separate the art from the artist unless they’ve already fallen at least a little bit in love...
Paid article"Talking to My Voice" and "The Owl"
Piero, W. S. Di
Two Poems by W. S. Di Piero TALKING TO MY VOICE As if during la peste you were my nervous guest, and me your host: I followed practices I knew: lemon tea, horehounds, sleep, and beseeched your...
Paid articleCentenary of an assassination
SJ, Patrick J. Ryan
Centenary of an Assassination Patrick J. Ryan, SJ My family’s Irish revolutionary history Like me, my father was named Patrick Joseph Ryan. He died at the age of fortyfive when I was four and...
Paid articleSummer of Soul
Thompson, Clifford
CLIFFORD THOMPSON ‘When Black Was Born’ Summer of Soul Soul music. The blues. Gospel. Jazz. All can be traced back to the same source, which is the experience of Black people in America, the...
Paid articlePeaces
Christman, Phil
Seen and Not Seen PHIL CHRISTMAN As a reader grows older, it gets harder not to fall victim to the idea that the novel is somehow in crisis—that this protean form is down to its...
Paid articleAfter Nationalism
Ganz, John
Too Big to Not Fail JOHN GANZ I used to say that if I had to recommend one book to understand America, it probably would be Daniel Walker Howe’s What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of...
Paid articleReligion and the Rise of Capitalism
Finn, Daniel K.
Theology’s Invisible Hand DANIEL K. FINN Benjamin M. Friedman is a macroeconomist at Harvard who has nurtured a lifelong interest in intellectual history. I was personally affected by his...
Paid article"Quintet of Cinquains"
Aleman, Tiina
QUINTET OF CINQUAINS Tiina Aleman The farm in Ohio nestled in the valley— she is the beloved oasis— Glenford. Farmhouse, quiet old girl, built to last, when things did, she’ll outlive me,...
Paid articleDonald Revell
Domestico, Anthony
The Same Anew An interview with Donald Revell Anthony Domestico Donald Revell’s latest book of poetry, White Campion, opens with an epigraph from the Welsh poet Vernon Watkins: “Time reigns; yet...
Paid article"A Hint to Lucretius""
Revell, Donald
Two Poems by Donald Revell IN MEMORY OF DENISE LEVERTOV A calm mind neither apparels Nor judges the rained-upon zoo animals. Anger only, as a child frustrated With lions sleeping through...
Paid articleThe why & the how
Marino, Gordon
The Why & the How GORDON MARINO “If we have our own ‘why’ in life, we shall get along with almost any ‘how.’” In his famous Holocaust survival memoir, Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl...
Paid articleCLOSING SHOT
Heilner, Alexander
DIVERTED WATERS Alexander Heilner, Mexicali and the All-American Canal, 2019 The U.S.-built border wall cuts a decisive line through the middle of the Sonoran Desert. In this picture, Mexicali, a...
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