Article A Good Start for the Synod... The Synod recognized the urgency of including women more fully in the Church, but its conclusions left much to be desired.By Frank BrennanNovember 7, 2023 Synodality Women in the Church Bishops
Article Synodality Works In the early decades of the twenty-first century, historians will say, the Church sought a new way of operating that would allow it to travel into a new era.By Austen IvereighNovember 7, 2023 Synodality Pope Francis Religion Bishops
Article ‘The Exorcist’ & Catholicism What explains the traditionalist Catholic infatuation with ‘The Exorcist’?By Paul BaumannNovember 4, 2023 Movies Religion Theology
Listen: From Bernalda to Bleecker St. Helene Stapinski reads her feature about Fr. Luigi Portarulo, a young Italian priest making his way in New York City. Listen: U.S. Catholicism Religious Life Vatican
Article The Pro-Life Movement: Less Popular Than Ever? The real problem for the pro-life movement is that it has been co-opted by Republican anti-abortion politics.By Bernard G. PrusakNovember 3, 2023 Abortion Politics Religion Bishops
Article Mixed Feelings In her remarkable new memoir, Danielle Chapman documents the “short-circuiting of her American nervous system.”By Katherine LuckyNovember 1, 2023 Poetry Religion Culture Donald Trump
Article Posthumanism’s Revolt Against Responsibility Antihumanism and transhumanism erode social responsibility and embolden the people destroying our planet.By Nolen GertzNovember 1, 2023 Technology Politics Climate Change
PoliticsAbolishing Poverty in America Poverty is not inevitable. Matthew Desmond explains the steps we need to take to eradicate it.By Dominic PreziosiOctober 9, 2023
ReligionSynodality & Catholic Amnesia Catholic synodality has a long, rich history. Understanding that history will help the Church flourish.By Shaun BlanchardOctober 9, 2023
CultureThe Double Life of George Eliot Marriage, for George Eliot, was a school in virtue.By Mollie Wilson O’ReillyOctober 19, 2023
BooksThe Bible as Poetry If you can’t read poetry, a great part of the Bible is going to remain closed to you.By Christian WimanOctober 5, 2023
CollectionsBetter Off Without Us? A Commonweal symposium on the rise of transhumanism and antihumanism.By The EditorsOctober 31, 2023