Bishop John England leaves behind a complicated legacy: a useful method of thinking beyond clericalism, and a warning about the application of natural law.
The new encyclical proposes a model of political economy based on a renewed understanding of what it means to be a neighbor, a citizen, and a Christian.
Readers respond to articles about Democratic politics, U.S. foreign policy, and race in Catholic media, and the magazine honors our retiring poetry editor.
Young people today are skeptical of institutions and have lower levels of trust in traditional kinds of authority. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
A collection of Commonweal’s writing about ‘Fratelli tutti,’ Pope Francis’s most recent papal encyclical, including the symposium from the December 2020 issue.
