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"We’d suddenly entered a survival mentality: if the LAPD had pointed a weapon at children, we were no longer safe regardless of our peacefulness." Claudia Avila Cosnahan on the protests against ICE in Los Angeles: commonwealmagazine.org/los-angeles-tr…

"Day reminds us that our primary vocation in life is to love one another—and that we are most frequently called to that love by our distractions." James M. Lang on love, distraction, and Dorothy Day on retreat: commonwealmagazine.org/love-means-ans…

"He has attempted to lead the life of a devout Jesuit priest in the tradition of his namesake while also learning deeply from Hindu traditions." Thomas Albert Howard on Francis X. Clooney’s life on the border between religious traditions: commonwealmagazine.org/hovering-edge

"To Bill Buckley, the idea that a Catholic American needed to prove his patriotic bona fides was not hurtful or insulting; it was ludicrous." In a Commonweal exclusive, the great Sam Tanenhaus explores the Catholicism of William F. Buckley: commonwealmagazine.org/buckley-willia…

What, exactly, is David Bentley Hart’s deal? What is his vast and diverse corpus fundamentally driving at? Phil Christman: 'A Change of Hart?' commonwealmagazine.org/david-bentley-…

Ethan Schwartz: Right-wing attacks on the Catholic Church draw from the antisemitic playbook. commonwealmagazine.org/schwartz-pope-…

"This remarkable episode—in many ways the most daring in his long life of advocacy—was one he now wished had never happened." Sam Tanenhaus on William F. Buckley's critique of Pope John XXIII: commonwealmagazine.org/buckley-willia…

Susan Bigelow Reynolds: Obsolescence may be the source of Millennial religious rejection. But it is also the key to understanding Millennial religious embrace. commonwealmagazine.org/overlooked-tre…

Human anthropology and sexual ethics are subject to change. But the knowledge that we were created in the divine image to love and be loved is eternal. Paul Lakeland: 'Created to Love' commonwealmagazine.org/created-love

"The Chicago Catholic Church grew up with the city itself. Coming of age on the South Side, Robert Prevost lived within its tightly knit network of Catholic communities and institutions." — Margaret O’Brien Steinfels 'Nice Boy Up from the Parishes' commonwealmagazine.org/leo-xiv-chicag…

"There may be some useful wisdom to be gleaned from ascetical elements in our tradition that aren’t reducible to misogyny or hatred of the body." Michael Hollerich on celibacy, sex, and the Christian tradition: commonwealmagazine.org/angels-eunuchs

David Jones’ ‘In Parenthesis’ is “the greatest work of modernist poetry you’ve never read.” commonwealmagazine.org/out-vortex

"In Los Angeles, our protests have been acts of hope and courage, full of moments of joyful resistance expressed by dancing, singing, and blessings." A letter from Los Angeles by Claudia Avila Cosnahan: commonwealmagazine.org/los-angeles-tr…

"Shared housing insecurity could be one basis upon which to build the solidarity we so desperately need." Jennifer Denbow on the decision to not buy a home: commonwealmagazine.org/best-investmen…

"Who the hell are we? I mean, who are we as human beings, in our souls, in our very essence: Are we ultimately good or bad? Loving or violent?" An interview in Commonweal with the legendary director Martin Scorsese: commonwealmagazine.org/faith-streets

“Once, when Dad was still on the streets, I heard from someone that he showed up at the Easter Vigil. How did he even know when it was?” Timothy P. Schilling on a lesson from his father: commonwealmagazine.org/father-schilli…

Valéry's creation of Monsieur Teste personifies his own ambition to be a "witness who is pure intellect." An essay by Jared Marcel Pollen: commonwealmagazine.org/head-clouds

"Dante is very much the communitarian, just as Catholicism is inherently communitarian." Denys Turner on the theological vision of Dante's 'Inferno': commonwealmagazine.org/purgatorial-pe…

"Gary Wills sensed in Buckley 'a timorousness not a robustness of belief—as if he were afraid ever to start questioning anything.'" Sam Tanenhaus on the Catholic piety of William F. Buckley: commonwealmagazine.org/buckley-willia…

Paul Valéry labored to establish an Epicurean Garden of the worst kind—one free of sociality, wine, and poetry. commonwealmagazine.org/head-clouds