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Remembering Rerum Novarum with this postage stamp from 1991.
August 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Holy Mass Online - Bible Readings and Video : Friday, August 29, 2025 - #Eucharist - Virtual Catholic Church catholicnewsworld.com/2025/08/holy...
August 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Oggi su Repubblica in edicola un mio commento sul passaggio di testimone tra #PapaFrancesco e #PapaLeone. Il senso della parola “inquietudine”.
May 19, 2025 at 6:23 AM
John D. Caputo: johndcaputo.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Pope Leo XIV speaks out against AI: ‘A challenge of human dignity, justice and labour’
Pope Leo XIV speaks against AI: ‘A challenge of human dignity, justice and labour’
New leader of the Catholic Church says AI poses challenge to humankind and dignity of workers
www.independent.co.uk
May 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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1/3 Pope Francis has written a letter to the U.S. bishops denouncing the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans: “I exhort...all men and women of goodwill not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters...”
February 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Commonweal in conversation: Join Cristina Lledo Gomez and Mollie Wilson O'Reilly on February 26 for a discussion about Catholicism, mothering, and maternity.

RSVP now!
events.fairfield.edu/event/cathol...
February 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 74th National Jewish Book Awards. Click here for the full list: bit.ly/4hmmG8T
January 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Ahead of Saturday's feast day, here's The conversion of St Paul on the way to Damascus & his baptism from a Picture Bible (1190) now held in The National Library of the Netherlands.
January 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Happy new year!
January 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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A wonderful story of rebirth with beautiful images.
apnews.com/article/pari...
Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire
After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral has showed its new self to the world Friday.
apnews.com
November 29, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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The December issue is here! Feat.
- Jon Malesic on art and attention
- James Chappel on W. H. Auden
- Michael Peppard on Marian art
- The Editors on Trump's return to the White House
- Gerald W. Schlabach on honorable surrender
& more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2024-...
November 27, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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Viaggio Apostolico di #PapaFrancesco ad #Ajaccio per la conclusione del Congresso “La religiosité populaire en
Méditerranée” (15 dicembre 2024)
November 23, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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"'There has never been a cult of personality at Commonweal,' Sheed wrote in a reflection for the magazine, 'for which, on the whole, the Lord be thanked and the saints be praised.'"

Tony Domestico considers a reissued novel by the great Wilfrid Sheed:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/accreting-op...
Accreting Opinions
Wilfrid Sheed's recently reissued novel documents life at a sneakily familiar opinion magazine.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 22, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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Happy Feast of St. Cecilia, an early Roman martyr and patron saint of musicians. This is her original tomb, in the Catacombs of St. Callixtus, outside of Rome. (Her remains are now in the Basilica of St. Cecelia). Happy Feast to all musicians, music ministers, and to St. Cecelia's Parish in Boston.
November 22, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Antonio Spadaro on Matteo Ricci SJ, one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Missions, and a potential source for rethinking a polarized international politics through multilateralism and relationship.
Oggi sul Fatto quotidiano in edicola una mia riflessione su Matteo Ricci. Dalla Cina 🇨🇳 del ‘500 ci ispira a ripensare un ordine internazionale – che oggi appare lontano – fondato sul multilateralismo e su rapporti capaci di superare nazionalismi gretti e logiche di spartizione.
November 20, 2024 at 1:11 PM
The great Martin Scorsese on Faith ahead of his new show 'The Saints': nation.foxnews.com/watch/2daf45...
November 19, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Images from the wonderful Sapienza Università di Roma, where colleagues hosted our last conference, 'The Dramatised Word' (16-20 September 2024) www.powerofthewordproject.com/powerofthewo...
November 18, 2024 at 8:44 PM
'"Like a Thorn in the Heart": Literature, Theology and Education': the next PotW Project event is on 12 April 2025 in collaboration with the Heythrop Institute at the London Jesuit Centre. Our title is from Pope Francis' 'The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination'. shorturl.at/TcdCD
November 18, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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November 18, 2024 at 8:15 AM