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 Vol. 153 Issue 006 (June 1 2026)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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The historical Mary, how we approach AI DEVOTION, NOT DEGRADATION I appreciate Luke Timothy Johnson’s engagement with The Lost Mary (“Manufactured Matriarch,” May), but his review presents a...
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Trump’s corruption
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A Presidential Smash and Grab One now often hears Donald Trump described as the most corrupt president in U.S. history. It may sound like hyperbole—just another extravagant insult from those...
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Leo’s American critics
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Gibson, David
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A man in a suit is talking to a man in a white robe. Description generated by AI DAVID GIBSON Leo vs. the Americanists A heresy comes of age In 1899 Pope Leo XIII sent a letter to the Catholic...
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Catholic-conscious investing
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Mazewski, Matt
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Two men wearing suits and ties. Description generated by AI MATT MAZEWSKI Christening Mammon How the Vatican Bank’s new investment indexes could do more harm than good When people learn that...
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Land rematriation
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Munch, Regina
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REGINA MUNCH The Way You Let Go Land rematriation as reparation Last October, two acres of lakefront land in northern Wisconsin changed hands. The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration...
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Capital punishment
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Schlumpf, Heidi
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A man holding a sign that says State Murder Is Not Justice. Description generated by AI HEIDI SCHLUMPF Pope and President, at Odds Again? Coincidental announcements on capital punishment...
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An ownerist society
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Corbin, Ian Marcus
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The Ownerist Society Ian Marcus Corbin Buying belonging in the modern world At its most fundamental level, economists tell us, ownership is “the right to exclude.” It sets up boundaries and...
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‘Prodigal’
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Hines, Mary Beth
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PRODIGAL Mary Beth Hines we believe the shoot sprouting in the yard auspicious our sandy patch of land blessed and blessed again and watch over years seedling to sapling to tree ...
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The Chuch & liberal democracy
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Faggioli, Thomas Banchoff, Massimo; Schneck, Stephen F.
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Defender of Democracy? The Pope, the President, and our Current Crisis Thomas Banchoff and Massimo Faggioli President Donald Trump’s undermining of democratic institutions poses a difficult...
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To love like an emerald
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Wayland-Smith, Ellen
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‘As an Emerald
Is Green’
Ellen Wayland-Smith
Is Christian charity hard as a crystal or soft as flesh?
“God loves, not as I love,...
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‘Raphael: Sublime Poetry’
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Oleynick, Griffin
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GRIFFIN OLEYNICK Down to Earth ‘Raphael: Sublime Poetry’ At first glance, there is something cold and formal about the portrait. Raphael’s Saint Sebastian in Half-Length, painted around 1503,...
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A World Appears
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Pollan, Michael
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Consciousness Researchers Are Tripping KIT WILSON Here’s an idea for a game show. It’s called “Materialists on Mushrooms.” A bunch of hardheaded scientists gather in a room to discuss the...
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Hyperpolitics
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A person holding an American flag. Description generated by AI A woman with red lipstick on her lips. Description generated by AI A Crisis of Belonging DANIELE G. PALMER Commentary on politics...
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Python’s Kiss
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Erdrich, Louise
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Blessings & Curses in Disguise MICHAEL O’CONNELL Despite their often-dark themes, there is something very reassuring about reading Louise Erdrich’s stories. At all times, you know that you are in...
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In the Twilight of the Christian West
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Loftin, Mac
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Love Without Reward PAUL LAKELAND What does it mean to mourn? We mourn for someone or something that we have lost, someone or something we have treasured that is gone forever. But strangely...
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‘Our New Apartment’
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Piero, W. S. Di
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OUR NEW APARTMENT W. S. Di Piero Here again we are, another way to be together where the blinds mess with night’s street lights gridded across the ceiling. Ten years place to place you’ve...
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Literature and the common good
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Spadaro, Antonio
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ANTONIO SPADARO Literature and the Commonweal How storytellers weave a fabric of mutual interest “In this time of global crisis—of war and deep polarization, of rigid paradigms and mounting...
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‘Cape Ann’
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Schulman, Grace
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CAPE ANN living to live in a time beyond me Grace Schulman 1 Calm sea today. Seeing a plank wash in from a wrecked pier, I asked if all I’ve lost could slide back whole, upended in the...
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Acknowledging Commonweal Associates
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THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR SECOND CENTURY Every year at this time, we thank our Commonweal Associates whose support makes possible everything that we do—from our podcast and print magazine, to...
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Repairing the broken
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Tomycz, Luke
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A painting of a boat with people on it. Description generated by AI Repairing the Broken LUKE TOMYCZ The phone rang at two in the morning like a siren in a war zone. I sat up quickly and...
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‘Wetlands’
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Deane, John F.
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WETLANDS John F. Deane Should you find yourself growing disenchanted with this self-infatuated world, its will to violence and domination—step away a while, and walk in silence, slowly, round...
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