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All the Way to the Abyss
My time in the borderlands taught me that there is dignity in the deviant and the criminal. Even Judases need an advocate.
Pablo Christian Soenen
Fight for the Fourteenth
The bishops filed an amicus brief in support of birthright citizenship. Conservative critics aren’t happy.
Heidi Schlumpf

Why Do We Suffer?

Ultimately, we suffer because we have no other choice in the matter. The only choice we do have is: What do we do with it?
Dan Barry
'Of This World'—On the Altar
Hosts and 'Commonweal' contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor chat with professor and author Jonathan Sheehan about the history of sacrifice, from the sacred to the secular.
Real Solidarity
LentDonald TrumpImmigrationBishops
Becoming a faith community means allowing the faces of the displaced to enter our liturgies and our civic imagination.
Dylan Corbett
Bad for the Church, and the World
VaticanPope Leo XIVDonald TrumpReligion
Many U.S. bishops remain unwilling to call out Trump's authoritarianism. They would be wise to draw lessons from the Church's history with Italian Fascism.
Massimo Faggioli
An Ecumenical Pilgrimage
ReligionWomen in the ChurchEcumenism
Dame Mullally’s participation in the Becket Camino represents a sign of ecumenism as she becomes the first woman to lead the Church of England.
Vanessa R. Corcoran
The Gospel According to Tom Homan
U.S. CatholicismPoliticsImmigrationBishops
Trump-appointed border czar Tom Homan is a lifelong Catholic, but do his zero-tolerance immigration policies align with Church teaching?
Paul Moses
No Mirrors, Shared Shoes
HistoryEuropeCulture
The rural Ireland of my parents’ generation more closely resembled the Middle Ages than 21st-century Europe.
John Rodden
The Church Is Not a Culture
TheologyReligionpostliberalism
Almost exactly ten years after I had first considered becoming Catholic for intellectual reasons, I became one for interpersonal reasons.
Jonathan Heaps
Debating Women’s Ordination
Women in the ChurchLettersContinuing the Conversation
Readers debate Paul Baumann's provocative essay on women's ordination—and Baumann responds to his critics.
The Editors
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