Paul Moses
Commonweal Magazine
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Past articles by Paul:
A Historic Resignation
Bishop Hoeppner’s resignation marks a significant advance in the effort to hold prelates accountable for concealing clergy sexual abuse. → Read More
A Different Kind of Catholic
Longtime peace activist Martin Gugino represents a face of Catholicism that Donald Trump would not know from the ‘powerful’ Catholics around him. → Read More
Money Well Spent
The multi-billionaire spent hundreds of millions of dollars from his immense personal fortune to leverage his influence as mayor. → Read More
Crisis of Conscience
Administration officials asked to judge the president fairly often find themselves out of a job when their consciences come into conflict with Trump’s demands. → Read More
Penalizing Poverty
A new federal rule redefines who is likely to become a “public charge,” and is therefore ineligible for citizenship. Few remember the rule’s anti-Catholic roots. → Read More
Give It an ‘F’
Journalistic values are moral values, and on this measure The Pillar fails. → Read More
The Trump Administration’s Immigration Amnesia
The Trump administration’s immigration hardliners, like Ken Cuccinelli, seem to be suffering from faulty memory. → Read More
The Voice of the People
Despite their dwindling resources, local news still offers something national outlets can’t: person-to-person connection. → Read More
The U.S. Attorneys Who Revered Rudy Loathe Him Now
James Comey was among the Reagan-era prosecutors who saw Rudy’s SDNY as ‘a dream job.’ Now, Rudy says his old team was a ‘quintessential Eastern elite.’ → Read More
Redefining Who’s ‘Vulnerable’
The problem of clergy sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church can’t truly be dealt with until the abuse of adults is recognized → Read More
Prime Incentives
Amazon, a company too big and wealthy to have any just claim to public money, has made an art form of subsidizing corporate expansion with taxpayer funding → Read More
‘The Worst Place Ever’ Is ICE’s Etowah County Detention Center in Alabama
Williamson was a healthy 45-year-old man when he and Reynolds, held by ICE pending deportation, arrived at the county-run Alabama jail after a snow-delayed, double-shackled trip... → Read More
Just as Rampant?
Cardinal McCarrick's downfall reveals the need for better, more transparent ways for handling sexual harassment of adults → Read More
Minor Offenses
The criminalization of immigrants began long before Trump, with the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 → Read More
Bill de Blasio, Bernie Sanders, and the Left-Wing’s Own ‘Fake News’ Problem
Politicians’ self-interested complaints about ‘corporate media’ are part of what’s eroding confidence in mainstream news coverage. → Read More
The Wrong Lawyer
When it comes to aggressive investigative tactics, Rudy Giuliani wrote the book → Read More
‘You Shall Love the Sojourner as Yourself’
Faith leaders gathered at the UN to set out moral principles for how and why to give hospitality to immigrants → Read More
It Could Get Worse
Rudy Giuliani’s blundering defense of Trump is an attempt to get ahead of legal problems that could get much worse → Read More
Just a Dupe
Even in the light most favorable to him, President Trump was the Russians’ dupe → Read More
When the Faithful Vote from Fear
Catholic Church leaders are facing up to the fact that the faithful have helped elect a coalition united by opposition to immigrants → Read More