Article Speak Boldly, Listen Carefully The synod in Rome envisions a different Church, one in which ordinary people are heard.By Austen IvereighOctober 21, 2021 Pope Francis Laity Clericalism
Article Minding the Church Whistleblowers in the Church are prophetic and necessary. The hierarchy should treat them accordingly.By Brian DevlinOctober 20, 2021 Clericalism Laity Sexual-abuse Crisis
Article Who Are These ‘People’? Synodality can demythologize clerical power, but in order to work, the people it centers must include the vulnerable, not just the elite.By Massimo FaggioliOctober 7, 2021 Vatican II Pope Francis Clericalism Laity
Article Synodality? What’s Synodality? Synodality is essential for recovering the legitimacy of ecclesial spaces. But the U.S. bishops don’t seem to want to consider it.By Massimo FaggioliJune 15, 2021 Clericalism Pope Francis Bishops U.S. Catholicism
Article An Ambrose of Our Own Our current system of choosing bishops discounts the laity and local priests in favor of patronage from above. That must change.By Nicholas P. CafardiDecember 9, 2020 Bishops Clericalism
Article The Complicated Legacy of Bishop John England Bishop John England leaves behind a complicated legacy: a useful method of thinking beyond clericalism, and a warning about the application of natural law.By Paul LakelandNovember 25, 2020 Clericalism Bishops Race
PoliticsReckoning with Guantánamo The continued existence of Guantánamo Bay is unconscionable. So is the fact that it was ever opened in the first place.By The EditorsSeptember 28, 2021
Religion‘Always Together’ An excerpt from ‘Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis’By Pope FrancisSeptember 28, 2021
CultureIn Awe of All People The late John August Swanson’s ‘Procession’ reminds us that we all walk together, sharing our suffering and our happiness.By Claudia Avila CosnahanSeptember 30, 2021
Books‘Sops to Humanity’ Samuel Moyn’s new book demonstrates how a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself.By Phil KlayOctober 4, 2021
CollectionsConfronting Climate Change Writing from Commonweal on the effects of climate change and our responsibility to care for our common home.By The EditorsSeptember 20, 2021
