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Ep. 124 - The GOP Attack on Catholic Shelters at the Border
Season 1 Episode 124
Recent weeks have seen an intensification of the Republican campaign against Catholic groups that offer assistance to migrants and refugees along the…
2 years ago
Ep. 123 - The Hall Beside Belief
Season 1 Episode 123
For many religious people, the pandemic accelerated a decline in institutional allegiance and trust that was already well underway. Many Catholics st…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 122 - The New Suburbia
Season 1 Episode 122
For the first time, a majority of Americans now live in the suburbs—places that have been transformed over the past several decades by boom-and-bust …
2 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 121 - Rescuer of the Written Word
Season 1 Episode 121
For decades, Fr. Columba Stewart, a Benedictine Monk of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, has traveled the world in an effort to preserve …
2 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 120 - An Evening with Christian Wiman
Season 1 Episode 120
Last month, Commonweal hosted a book launch in New York City with poet Christian Wiman. The topic was his new book Zero at the Bone: 50 Entries Again…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 119 - Best of 2023
Season 1 Episode 119
On this special year-end episode, we’re revisiting four of our favorite conversations from the past year.
Sociologist Matthew Desmond explains how th…
2 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 118 - Why Conservatives Should Be Pro-Labor
Season 1 Episode 118
American workers have fared poorly in recent decades, suffering the loss not just of purchasing power, but of political power, too.
On this episode, …
2 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 117 - Processing the Synod
Season 1 Episode 117
Last month’s Synod on Synodality in Rome is perhaps one of the most important ecclesial gatherings to take place since the Second Vatican Council in …
2 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 116 - Saving Liberalism
Season 1 Episode 116
Today, the political and social philosophy known as liberalism—which champions democracy, individual rights, and free enterprise—is on the defensive.…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 115 - An Opera for ‘Life People’
Season 1 Episode 115
Dead Man Walking, based on the acclaimed memoir by Sr. Helen Prejean, may be the world’s most popular contemporary opera. But it had never before bee…
2 years, 5 months ago