Article Building the Culture of Encounter What must we do to develop a true culture of encounter?By Leo J. O’DonovanSeptember 14, 2022 Pope Francis Synodality Bishops Fratelli tutti
Article Closer Encounters A conference in Rome brings clarity to one of Pope Francis’s more elusive conceptsBy Paul ElieJuly 20, 2022 Pope Francis Fratelli tutti Synodality
Article Many and One A living Church must hold two seemingly opposed but equally radiant goods: the local and the universal.By Vinson CunninghamDecember 14, 2020 Fratelli tutti Pope Francis Race
Article Reconsidering ‘Chisme’ ‘Chisme’ can be a way of speaking publicly for those who feel they lack power or permission.By Neomi De AndaDecember 8, 2020 Fratelli tutti Pope Francis
Article Radical Truths At a time when politics appeals to the worst in us, ‘Fratelli tutti’ is a beautiful meditation on what life together as a human family can be.By William T. CavanaughDecember 2, 2020 Fratelli tutti Pope Francis
Article Freedom & Equality Aren’t Enough Francis’s latest encyclical exhorts us to realize the fuller lives that we are called to live.By Charles TaylorNovember 24, 2020 Pope Francis Fratelli tutti
PoliticsThe Making of Raphael Warnock Raphael Warnock’s career reflects challenges and hopes of the Black church.By Gary DorrienNovember 7, 2022
ReligionThe Tragedy of Evangelical Politics What in Evangelical history, theology, and present circumstances makes Trumpian right-wing populism seem like the ethical stance?By Marcia PallyNovember 7, 2022
CultureThe Art of Activism For Yolanda López, human dignity, even sanctity, lay primarily among those living at the margins of American culture.By Nicole-Ann LoboSeptember 29, 2022
BooksEvolution & Revelation Religious experience and beliefs offer ways of addressing a human need and materially improving our circumstances.By Stephen J. PopeAugust 8, 2022
CollectionsAbortion After Dobbs Commonweal writers discuss what Dobbs is likely to mean for abortion law, American politics, and the challenge of creating a “culture of life” worthy of the name.By The EditorsAugust 30, 2022
CollectionsWomen & the Church Writing from the Commonweal archives that investigates women’s relationship to the church through the centuriesBy The EditorsNovember 27, 2017
