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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 1d

“I worked with Patrick Jordan at Commonweal for more than twenty years. Pat was one of the most decent people I have ever known.”

Paul Baumann remembers a great soul:
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A Great Soul

"I worked with Patrick Jordan at Commonweal for more than twenty years. Pat was one of the most decent people I have ever known."

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 3d

At @commonweal.bsky.social it's my first dispatch from NYFF, featuring: Sentimental Value, Jay Kelly, two Linklaters of variable quality and perhaps the worst movie I've seen since last year's New York Film Festival.

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Movies Love the Movies

The sixty-third edition of the New York Film Festival featured works from big-name directors exploring the relationship between art and life.

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 3d

Patrick Jordan believed that Christians have a responsibility to shape society. He exercised that responsibility primarily through writing.

An obituary by Karen Sue Smith:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/jordan-patri...

Love in Action

Patrick Jordan believed that Christians have a responsibility to shape society. He exercised that responsibility primarily through writing.

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 3d

"In the end, what’s needed in this ever more polarized Church and world is an orientation to what we might call the radical middle."

Paul Lakeland on John Gehring's 'Reclaiming American Catholicism':
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Heavy Lift?

John Gehring’s 'Reclaiming American Catholicism' is an exhaustive account of Catholicism in the Trump era and all that we face to reclaim the faith.

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 4d

TOMORROW: Join us as we host Matthew Sitman and Tara Isabella Burton in dialogue at the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary!

RSVP here:
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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 4d

TOMORROW: Join us as we host Matthew Sitman and Tara Isabella Burton in dialogue at the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary!

RSVP here:
cwlmag.org/rootsdialogue

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 4d

"If prayer becomes just an output generated by code, rather than a cry rising from within, faith risks dissolving into white noise."

@antoniospadaro.bsky.social on faith in an era of algorithms:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/technology-a...

Influence Is No Longer Enough

Genuine religious practice is the art of listening for what no machine will ever pronounce.

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 5d

Join the life of the magazine as we enter our second century!

Commonweal is hiring a Director of Advancement and a Finance & Operations Manager — learn more here:
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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 5d

"The pope’s words underline what Cupich himself has been asking us to see: that Catholic faith cannot be reduced to one issue."

Juan Carlos Cruz on the Durbin-Cupich controversy:
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Distinctions Matter

The uproar surrounding Cardinal Cupich’s decision to honor Dick Durbin for his work on immigration reform reveals more about the divisions in the U.S. Church than it does about either man.

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 5d

Former Commonweal managing editor and longtime friend of the magazine Pat Jordan has died.

RIP, a true servant of God.

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 6d

"The seriously mentally ill are frequently excluded from civil society, including sometimes from Church and family life."

Cathleen Kaveny introduces a symposium on serving people with mental illness:
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The Least of These

Contributions to this symposium challenge us to think more deeply about how the Church and civil society can recognize and honor the humanity of those dealing with mental illness.

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 6d

"It's easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than to judicially compel a person to accept treatment for psychiatric illness."

Meg Kaveny on the idol of autonomy—and the criminalization of mental illness:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/idol-autonomy

The Idol of Autonomy

How do we reform a system that treats mental illness only when it is intertwined with a criminal charge?

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 7d

"Ours is a moment that demands a revolutionary transformation in how human beings relate to nature."

Max Foley-Keene on what Rosa Luxemburg can teach us in an era of catastrophic climate change:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/luxemburg-ro...

All Creatures Great and Small

The socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg embodied precisely what we need today: a politics that seeks the flourishing of all creatures and recognizes the radicalism of that demand.

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 8d

Coming up this Thursday!
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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 11d

Mark your calendars! On Thursday, October 9, two great conversationalists—Matthew Sitman and Tara Isabella Burton—will explore the purpose of conversation.

RSVP here: www.commonwealmagazine.org/roots-dialog...

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 8d

In her new collection ‘Becoming Ghost,’ poet Cathy Linh Che tries to make sense of her family’s history, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film ‘Apocalypse Now.’

Melody S. Gee reviews:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/quiet-set

Quiet on Set

In her new collection ‘Becoming Ghost,’ poet Cathy Linh Che tries to make sense of her family's history, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film ‘Apocalypse Now.’

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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 9d

Profound writing by @ellenws.bsky.social.
Immediately added to the sacrament section of my Religion and Care for the Earth course. I can't wait for students to read it.

Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 15d

"There is no more visceral way to experience the fact of our shared flesh than to come face-to-face with the physical vulnerability of the other’s body."

Ellen Wayland-Smith on Communion and human bodily vulnerability:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/corpus-chris...

Corpus Christi

Understanding the Eucharist literally can help us understand the deeper truth of our own broken one-ness.

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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote on marking time in new books by Yiyun Li and John Koethe for @commonweal.bsky.social

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Marking Time

Caring about language is really a way of caring for the world and those who are—or were—in it.

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 9d

"When we recognize migrants as members of our communities to be appreciated for their life’s journeys, we open ourselves to the hard work of genuine encounter."

Thomas Banchoff on the five-year anniversary of 'Fratelli tutti':
www.commonwealmagazine.org/fratelli-tut...

Reencountering ‘Fratelli tutti’

Since the release of 'Fratelli tutti' five years ago, the encyclical's call for human fraternity, social friendship, and a culture of encounter has lost none of its salience.

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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · 10d

For my September @commonweal.bsky.social column, I wrote on Yiyun Li's "Things in Nature Merely Grow" and John Koethe's "Cemeteries and Galaxies"

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Marking Time

Caring about language is really a way of caring for the world and those who are—or were—in it.

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 10d

"Caring about language is really a way of caring for the world and those who are—or were—in it."

@tonydomestico.bsky.social on new works by Yiyun Li and John Koethe:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/li-yiyun-Koe...

Marking Time

Caring about language is really a way of caring for the world and those who are—or were—in it.

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 11d

Mark your calendars! On Thursday, October 9, two great conversationalists—Matthew Sitman and Tara Isabella Burton—will explore the purpose of conversation.

RSVP here: www.commonwealmagazine.org/roots-dialog...

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 11d

Mark your calendars! On Thursday, October 9, two great conversationalists—Matthew Sitman and Tara Isabella Burton—will explore the purpose of conversation.

RSVP here: www.commonwealmagazine.org/roots-dialog...

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USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture @usccrcc.bsky.social · 11d

@commonweal.bsky.social recaps a conversation on the future of the Catholic Church hosted by the @iacsusc.bsky.social. As Pope Leo XIV shared in his first media interview, synodality is the way the future, even if few churchgoers know what that means!

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Still Positive on Synodality

Scholars gathered at the sociology of religion meeting in Chicago still saw synodality as the most encouraging cause for hope in the American Church.

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 12d

"We must be especially careful when seeking evidence for God’s will in our lives, even if we do so with the best of intentions."

Edward Tverdek: Finding God in everyday life is not a science.
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The Meaning of Coincidence

Seeing God’s work in the patterns of the natural world can be a beautiful thing, provided we avoid making a scientific, causal hypothesis out of our experiences.

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 13d

"Luxemburg’s fundamental ambition was to help construct a form of life that’s friendly to all the living. A radical demand if there ever was one."

Max Foley-Keene essays on the eco-spirituality of Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/luxemburg-ro...

All Creatures Great and Small

The socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg embodied precisely what we need today: a politics that seeks the flourishing of all creatures and recognizes the radicalism of that demand.

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