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1 week ago | 
thecity.nyc | Tim Healy |Paul Moses
With a 40% break on what they’d normally owe the city in property tax, the owners of a luxury emporium at 20 Hudson Yards seem to have a good deal. But that hasn’t stopped them from filing appeals against the city claiming that they’re hugely overtaxed.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Paul Moses
When Jessika heard about the Biden administration’s “Keeping Families Together” program, she felt she could breathe a sigh of relief. She hadn’t thought much about her husband Rico’s immigration status when they were dating, but after they married, she realized that the family’s sole supporter could be swept away at any time because he had come to the United States from Mexico at age two without authorization.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
clcjbooks.rutgers.edu | Paul Moses
Author: Paul MosesPublisher: Washington Mews Books/NYU Press, 2023. 304 pages. Reviewer: Frederick T. Martens | September 2024Most people attracted to stories about organized crime are captured by the betrayal and violence that are part of the underworld milieu. Few realize its connection to everyday life and what it says about our culture. Paul Moses has captured a sliver of this culture through an unconventional lens—The Italian Squad of the New York City Police Department.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Richard Schiffman |Paul Moses |Nick Fagnant |Jonathan Malesic
HalfwayHalfway to Heaven, the heavens—not too high, mind you, but a rung above the quotidian sky—at that heady altitude where cobalt blue blushes to blue-black and the earth curves away from itself like a gigantic tonguelapping at the glitter-dust of stars. Not at some dizzying height, that is, because it’s grace that one is after, not the icy certitudes of space.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Carrie Frederick Frost |Paul Moses |Nick Fagnant |Jonathan Malesic
“Who do you think will go first: the Catholics or the Orthodox?” a colleague asked me a few years ago in reference to the movements in both traditions to ordain women to the diaconate. Given that the possibilities in my own Orthodox community were just as opaque to me as my knowledge of the Catholic situation, I could not say. But bound up with that question was another question: Would the ordination of deaconesses in one apostolic lung of the Church make it easier for the other?
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Santiago Ramos |Paul Moses |Nick Fagnant |Jonathan Malesic
The Novelist covers six hours in the life of a young man, a struggling novelist. It’s a working morning: our protagonist gets up, makes tea (yerba mate, in a French press), opens his laptop, pulls up his work on Google Docs, logs on to Twitter, then Facebook, and returns to his novel. His wife is sleeping; his dog will eventually beg him for a walk. The Novelist switches to coffee. He goes to the bathroom. He barely writes.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Regina Munch |Paul Moses |Nick Fagnant |Jonathan Malesic
On June 4, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that drastically changed the rules for those seeking asylum at the southern border of the United States. Effective immediately, the border will be closed to asylum requests if the seven-day average number of daily encounters with migrants is above 2,500, and would reopen two weeks after that figure falls below a daily average of 1,500 for seven consecutive days.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Paul Moses |Jonathan Malesic |Kate Lucky
As I have spoken with young people in the Church about their experiences of worship, inclusion, and synodality, I have come to understand the importance of attending to their wounds, many of which have been caused or worsened by the Church. These wounds come in many forms, but I’d like to focus on one that is discussed less often: the exclusion of young people from parish leadership and the leadership of other Catholic organizations that make up the life of the Church.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Cathleen Kaveny |Paul Moses |Jonathan Malesic |Kate Lucky
Interested in discussing this article in your classroom, parish, reading group, or Commonweal Local Community? Click here for a free discussion guide. Whenever I open a book, a journal article, or an important Church document, the first thing I do is check the footnotes. This practice quickly gives me a sense of the author’s conversation partners. It also gives me an idea of the discussion in which the author aims to participate.
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May 29, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Gilbert Meilaender |Paul Moses |Nick Fagnant |Jonathan Malesic
Interested in discussing this article in your classroom, parish, reading group, or Commonweal Local Community? Click here for a free discussion guide. In the process of preparing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948, UNESCO convened a committee of philosophers to examine the theoretical basis for universal claims about human dignity and rights.
