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Peter Steinfels on the PA Grand Jury Report on Clergy Sex Abuse, Allan Lichtman on Voting Rights in the U.S., and poet Danielle Chapman with Tony Domestico
Season 1 Episode 7
Peter Steinfels discusses the PA Grand Jury Report, a document he contends is "inaccurate, unfair, and fundamentally misleading" in its characterizat…
7 years, 2 months ago
"Why We Came. Why We Left. Why We Stayed.", Christmas Critics Roundup, and Cassandra Nelson on the Liturgical Calendar and Advent
Season 1 Episode 6
Senior editor Matthew Boudway introduces special feature "Why We Came. Why We Left. Why We Stayed" — with essays by converts, practicing cradle Catho…
7 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 5 Long Segment - Dominic Preziosi and Dan Barry
Reporter Dan Barry spent more than a decade crisscrossing the United States, chronicling ordinary lives and extraordinary moments for his column in t…
7 years, 4 months ago
Long Segment - Tony Domestico and poet Katie Ford
The poems in Katie Ford’s fourth collection, If You Have to Go, implore their audience—the divine and the human—for attention, for revelation, and, p…
7 years, 4 months ago
The USCCB, the NYT's Dan Barry, poet Katie Ford, and staffers on Cultural Appropriation
Season 1 Episode 5
Dominic Preziosi and John Gehring wrap-up November's US Bishop's meetings in Baltimore. Our literary columnist Anthony Domestico interviews poet Kati…
7 years, 4 months ago
Katherine Lucky with Meghan O'Gieblyn
Meghan O'Gieblyn is the author of Interior States, a new collection of essays on topics like living in what some call "flyover country," contemporary…
7 years, 4 months ago
Tony Domestico with Emily Ruskovich
Emily Ruskovich's debut novel Idaho received wide acclaim in 2017, named a New York Times Editor's Choice Book and The Idaho Book of the Year. Here, …
7 years, 4 months ago
Synod 2018, writers Emily Ruskovich and Meghan O'Gieblyn, and Derek Jeffreys on America's Jails
Season 1 Episode 4
This episode features a conversation between Meghan O'Gieblyn and Katherine Lucky, a pair of young writers whose essays on the life of faith are alre…
7 years, 5 months ago
Dominic Preziosi interviews Katherine Lucky
Commonweal editor Dominic Preziosi talks with managing editor Katherine Lucky about the power of female rage in this political moment.
7 years, 5 months ago
Staffers on David Wojnarowicz
Staffers Griffin Oleynick, Nicole-Ann Lobo, and Meaghan Ritchey chat about the recently closed David Wojnarowicz retrospective at The Whitney Museum.…
7 years, 5 months ago