Dominic Preziosi
@dominicpreziosi.bsky.social
Commonweal editor, city dweller
My July column for @commonwealmagazine.org on Harriet Clark's debut novel "The Hill" www.commonwealmagazine.org/domestico-ju...
Released from Countdowns
Harriet Clark's debut novel is in explicit conversation with Marilynne Robinson's 'Housekeeping.' Remarkably, it stands up to the comparison.
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Vast wealth inequality is crippling democracy. There's a way to address that, as the @commonwealmagazine.org editors write. www.commonwealmagazine.org/tax-rich
Tax the Rich
The United States has made it much easier for the merely rich to become stratospherically wealthy. It's long past time to reverse course.
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“The Church has a preferential option for the poor.… It’s a formal doctrinal position,… It means a living wage is not a socialist plot but a human right. Catholic social teaching insists on this point so often and explicitly that you have to work hard to miss it. Vance works hard to miss it.”
Commonweal@commonwealmagazine.org · 4w ago"The narrative arc of Vance’s redemption is not long, and it bends toward power." — Paul V. Brock
The USMNT and Knicks being really good except for the precise moment when Trump involves himself is really funny
A child of the Bicentennial era on the complexities of celebrating 250 years of the U.S. in the Trump era - my latest at @commonwealmagazine.org
Commonweal@commonwealmagazine.org · last mo."True and noble affection seems in short supply." @dominicpreziosi.bsky.social: On its 250th birthday, loving the United States proves more complicated than ever. www.commonwealmagazine.org/america-250-...
Go see it before it closes—last weekend!
Commonweal@commonwealmagazine.org · last mo.Raphael is often an afterthought to artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti, writes @griffino.bsky.social. But, as a landmark show at the Met reveals, his work deserves a second—as well as a third, fourth, and fifth—viewing.
The Jalen M. Brunson And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts
Me and the eight year old walking down Franklin Ave, cheering along to the honking and the yelling and the singing. After getting a few fist bumps, he turns to me and says of New York, “People really seem to like this place”
Thrilled to feature our @commonwealmagazine.org Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson and the first episode of his narrative podcast on Black Catholic Detroit, "The City and the Cross" - a must-listen! www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/ground
From the Ground Up
In the first episode of our new limited podcast series, "The City and the Cross," host and inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson traces the origins and flowering of Black Catholic Detroit, from ...
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Religious leaders and communities cannot become complacent on immigration. As the midterm elections approach, the Church must embrace more explicitly political strategies to combat Trump’s war on immigrants. My latest with Dylan Corbett of Hope Border: www.commonwealmagazine.org/schlumpf-ice...
Changing the Calculus of Power
As the midterm elections approach, the Church must embrace more explicitly political strategies to combat Trump's war on immigrants.
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TOMORROW: We're delighted to launch Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson's narrative podcast series on the rise, erosion, and defiant survival of Black Catholic Detroit. Listen to the teaser now! www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/city...
With autocracy on the rise in both the U.S. and Europe, Pope Leo has an opportunity to rearticulate the Church’s positive teaching on democracy. Thomas Banchoff and @massimofaggioli.bsky.social: 'The Pope, the President, and Our Democratic Crisis'
The Pope, the President, and Our Democratic Crisis
With autocracy on the rise in both the United States and Europe, Pope Leo has an opportunity to rearticulate the Church’s positive teaching on democracy.
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"It is the first known transfer of Church-owned land to a tribal nation as an explicit act of reparation for the Church’s actions during the colonization of America." @regmunch.bsky.social reports on an extraordinary act of land rematriation:
The Way You Let Go
This October saw the first known transfer of Church-owned land to a tribal nation as an explicit act of reparation. What can the experiment teach the rest of the Church?
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Some look at land and see property. Sandry Rodriguez imagines land rising up, as a partner in resistance. On this NEW EPISODE of the Commonweal podcast, Rodriguez speaks with @griffino.bsky.social and @avilacosnahan.bsky.social:
Subversive Cartography
Some look at land and see property. Sandry Rodriguez imagines land rising up as a partner in resistance.
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ICYMI I forgot to post this interview with the amazing data master Ryan Burge, who dispels all kinds of myths about American religion. His newish book is "The Vanishing Church." www.commonwealmagazine.org/great-sort-a...
The ‘Great Sort’ in American Religion
Political scientist and statistician Ryan Burge discusses polarization, declining institutions, and the future of religion in the United States.
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by Tom Banchoff and myself for “Commonweal” www.commonwealmagazine.org/leo-trump-au...
The Pope, the President, and Our Democratic Crisis
With autocracy on the rise in both the United States and Europe, Pope Leo has an opportunity to rearticulate the Church’s positive teaching on democracy.
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"Can the Church bear a credible witness on technology, on just war, on what it means to be human?" NEW from @heidischlumpf.bsky.social on 'Magnifica humanitas' and the credibility of the Church:
Will the Encyclical Reach ‘People of Goodwill’?
If the Church itself does not recognize the full humanity of half its own members, how can it expect Silicon Valley and heads of state to respect its sermon on human dignity?
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Pope Leo and the ‘Babel Syndrome. ‘Magnifica humanitas’ challenges Silicon Valley’s Promethean pretensions. My take in @commonwealmagazine.org www.commonwealmagazine.org/spadaro-leo-...
Pope Leo and the ‘Babel Syndrome’
What Leo XIII did for wages and the right of association, Leo XIV does for the human person in the era of the algorithm.
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The best summary and analysis of Pope Leo's encyclical I've read so far is this one by Antonio Spadaro @antoniospadaro.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/spadaro-leo-...
Pope Leo and the ‘Babel Syndrome’
What Leo XIII did for wages and the right of association, Leo XIV does for the human person in the era of the algorithm.
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On a lighter note, go see Raphael at @metmuseum.org And then see if you agree with me that he's way better than Leonardo and Michelangelo (and also Donatello but no duh) www.commonwealmagazine.org/oleynick-rap...
Down to Earth
Raphael's art places us at the precise point where humanity and divinity converge.
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The June issue is here! Feat.: - @massimofaggioli.bsky.social and Thomas Banchoff on liberal democracy & the Church - Ian Marcus Corbin on our 'ownerist' society - Ellen Wayland-Smith on the hardness of Christian love And more! www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2026-...
Good reminder of the war crimes still being committed by Trump, Hegseth, et al outside the middle east by @dominicpreziosi.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-boat-s...
‘Simply Murder’
Donald Trump's killing spree at sea is indefensible on legal, ethical, and moral grounds.
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The Editors: Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history—by many orders of magnitude.
A Presidential Smash and Grab
Trump is not only the most corrupt president in American history—he is more corrupt than all other corrupt presidents by orders of magnitude.
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Also keep in mind that the Trump administration has killed nearly 200 people in boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. My latest at @commonwealmagazine.org www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-boat-s...
‘Simply Murder’
Donald Trump's killing spree at sea is indefensible on legal, ethical, and moral grounds.
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Vance hasn't really "remade" anything in US Catholicism. He's just a lost guy in search of a father. Also his flawed theology is critiqued in @ncronline.bsky.social not the Register which is a...different beast : ) nymag.com/intelligence...
How J.D. Vance Remade the Catholic Right
A ‘postliberal’ ideology has taken hold in the Church — and broken with Pope Leo.
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"But 'reclaiming Christianity for the left' is different from winning in Texas." @dominicpreziosi.bsky.social on the faith-first politics of James Talarico:
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Senate candidate James Talarico's faith-first approach to public service may offer a path out of our toxic politics. But first, he'll have to win Texas.
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