A review of religion, politics, and culture since 1924, edited by lay Catholics. Subscribe here: http://commonwealmagazine.org/subscribehttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mk3uemegut25On a NEW EPISODE of the Commonweal podcast, Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett shares how we can take back our minds from the depredations of Big Tech. Listen now! https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/reclaiming-attention22 Apr 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3uemegut25https://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mk3m7lif4q2wFor Bernard Lonergan, the drama of human history is—even right now, even in the United States—in the process of being redeemed by God through grace. An essay by @JonathanRHeaps: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/heaps-jonathan-philosophy-history-bernard-lonergan22 Apr 2026 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3m7lif4q2whttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjzvvfo3qk26Trump’s 2027 budget proposal is a scandalous document, evincing a total disregard for anyone who isn’t rich. NEW from the Editors: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/war-trump-health-care-budget-leo-pope-editorial21 Apr 2026 21:18 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjzvvfo3qk26https://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjzou5rvjq2nIt’s too soon to determine whether the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will last, writes Joseph Phillip Amar. In the meantime, the Lebanese have their dead to bury. https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/amar-israel-lebanon-middle-east-war-trump21 Apr 2026 19:13 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjzou5rvjq2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjyxf52b6b2jToday, confession largely figures as something Catholics feel guilty about not doing, if they give it any thought at all. What happened? Bernard G. Prusak on the 'ghost sacrament': https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/prusak-confession-america-catholic-bernard-o-toole21 Apr 2026 12:13 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyxf52b6b2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjxjhctzik2w"The Holy See’s theologians may be underestimating the eschatological character of these schools of thought." @kevjg.bsky.social on the religious worldview of AI's boosters: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/gallagher-ai-artificial-intelligence-pope-leo-vatican20 Apr 2026 22:31 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxjhctzik2whttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjwtgrzmub25George Scialabba: Will America ever turn away from imperial arrogance? https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/scialabba-iran-war-trump-international-law-israel20 Apr 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwtgrzmub25https://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjwrzopxud2hJohn Updike’s writing attempted to capture what is ineffably precious and intangible about life. What will be lost if the culture forgets him? Paul Baumann: 'Updike Redux' https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/baumann-updike-john-letters-selected-fiction20 Apr 2026 15:31 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwrzopxud2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjucxtih3n2p"As a general rule the inclination of the Christian should be to liberality." Eugene McCarthy on the role of the Christian in political life (from 1954): https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/christian-politics-eugene-mccarthy-archives-commonweal19 Apr 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjucxtih3n2phttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjsh4qh5oj2j.@heidischlumpf.bsky.social: It's time to get conversion therapy out of the Church. https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/conversion-therapy-roman-catholic-church-supreme-court-schlumpf18 Apr 2026 22:06 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjsh4qh5oj2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjsdrhm67n2n"Perhaps the reason Americans root for a visit from Leo is that they envision him giving our feckless leaders the talking-to they deserve. But if you listen, he’s doing that already." — @mollieoreilly.bsky.social https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/leo-trump-war-iran-united-states-visit18 Apr 2026 21:06 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjsdrhm67n2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjrsivxwi52fGod isn’t a subject of typical bar conversation, but the partial gospels sometimes found there reveal a desire to justify hope, to believe that suffering isn’t the final truth of our lives. A Last Word from David Mills: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/mills-theodicy-dive-bar-last-word18 Apr 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjrsivxwi52fhttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjmls2reus2s"Once again, Lebanon is being made to pay the price for circumstances beyond its control." Joseph Phillip Amar: Will the ceasefire with Iran survive Israel’s brutal attacks on Lebanon? https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/amar-israel-lebanon-middle-east-war-trump16 Apr 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmls2reus2shttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjlb6kgexu26For Pope Leo to visit the United States under present circumstances would be far more scandalous than his simply staying away. @mollieoreilly.bsky.social: 'Travel Advisory' https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/leo-trump-war-iran-united-states-visit16 Apr 2026 01:31 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjlb6kgexu26https://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjkb46el2w2r"Not many who stand next to Trump walk away with their dignity intact. Smart people avoid it altogether." @mollieoreilly.bsky.social explains why Pope Leo should keep his distance from the United States: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/leo-trump-war-iran-united-states-visit15 Apr 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkb46el2w2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mji3lpuv7r2vThe protagonists of Pope Leo’s favorite movies are ordinary people who, against all evidence, still believe in the possibility of goodness. @antoniospadaro.bsky.social on Leo and film: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/ordinary-goodness14 Apr 2026 19:13 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mji3lpuv7r2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjhqnagrie26"If AI shouldn’t 'do your homework for you,' or do your thinking for you, why should it be playing any role in spiritual formation at all?" Nathan Dufour Oglesby on Catholic evangelization in an age of artificial intelligence: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/ai-artificial-intelligence-oglesby-evangelization-leo-truthly-catholic14 Apr 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhqnagrie26https://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjfw6uarso2xMy time in the borderlands taught me that there is dignity in the deviant and the criminal. Even Judases need an advocate. An essay by Pablo Christian Soenen: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/border-mercy-judas-borges-soenen-pablo-christian-poor-migration13 Apr 2026 22:31 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfw6uarso2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjf6q5phoc2x"More than two-thirds of U.S. Catholics favor opening ordination to women." @heidischlumpf.bsky.social reports on the women continuing the fight for ordination: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/women-priesthood-ordination-schlumpf-conference-catholic13 Apr 2026 15:31 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjf6q5phoc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjcppfpzow24"Hundreds, if not thousands, of women have left Catholicism to pursue ordination in Protestant denominations." @heidischlumpf.bsky.social reports on the fight for women's ordination: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/women-priesthood-ordination-schlumpf-conference-catholic12 Apr 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjcppfpzow24https://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjcneeamoi2t"The radical forms of economic life Dorothy Day encouraged are the concrete and quotidian way Christians go about believing in the Resurrection." Colin Miller on Byung-Chul Han and the legacy of the Catholic Worker: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/dying-work12 Apr 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjcneeamoi2thttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mjcgnw3orj26Why doesn’t the government work anymore? Marc J. Dunkelman sits down with ‘Commonweal’ to discuss government procedure, progressive politics, and the “abundance movement.” https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/dunkelman-marc-stern-abundance-why-nothing-works12 Apr 2026 13:15 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjcgnw3orj26https://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mj6lpubqgj2h"We might invoke St. Thomas Aquinas as patron against 'AI slop.'" @kevjg.bsky.social essays on artificial intelligence and Christian anthropology: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/gallagher-ai-artificial-intelligence-pope-leo-vatican11 Apr 2026 00:35 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj6lpubqgj2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/commonwealmagazine.org/post/3mj5ormpk2p2m“Those who truly love unsettle things. Because they can’t be used. They can’t be instrumentalized.” @antoniospadaro.bsky.social in conversation with the great Patti Smith: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/smith-patti-interview-spadaro-wonder10 Apr 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:gmikpdka2jiojbgytkcfa35w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5ormpk2p2m