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How will Pope Leo navigate a growing hostility between the United States and the European continent?
Catholic teaching prioritizes people over markets. But neoliberals would rather change the Church than change the economy.

Leo & Liturgy

Despite the hopes of Catholic traditionalists, Pope Leo has not undone Francis’s limits on the Latin Mass, but other questions about liturgy remain on the synodal table.
In the second episode of our special podcast series, ‘Commonweal’ contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor speak with Molly Worthen, author of ‘Spellbound.’
"Ash Wednesday made no assumptions. It offered no promise that anything would get better. It spoke directly to the condition I recognized most readily."
To understand this troubling moment in American democracy, look at the history and making of the New Right.
Today, confession largely figures as something Catholics feel guilty about not doing, if they give it any thought at all. What happened?
Five years after whipping up a loose army of supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol, Trump has deployed a well-funded paramilitary force to execute his authoritarian agenda.