Article Extraordinary Divisions There can be no reconciliation between Catholics that does not involve some kind of liturgical reconciliation By Massimo Faggioli February 21, 2018 Vatican II U.S. Catholicism Liturgy Pope Benedict XVI
Article The Vortex We are drifting toward a point where no one is willing to accept a politically inconvenient fact; where only useful fictions matter By Rand Richards Cooper February 21, 2018 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article Bias, ‘Brogrammers’ & Blind Spots Tech companies are dominated by a very particular type of person, and their influence can affect the culture at large By Regina Munch February 21, 2018 Domestic Affairs Media
Article Serpents & Doves Resolving the conflict between China’s two Catholic communities will require very careful compromises By The Editors February 21, 2018 Editorial Pope Francis Foreign Affairs Bishops
Article Just a Dupe Even in the light most favorable to him, President Trump was the Russians’ dupe By Paul Moses February 20, 2018 Donald Trump Election 2016 Foreign Affairs
Article Phenomenology of the Gun We’ve obscured the purpose of guns to ourselves By B. D. McClay February 20, 2018 Domestic Affairs Ethics Columnists
Article In the Presence of Mystery Though scientists resist explanations of faith, fashion and fantasy, Roger Penrose shows that all three are at work in how scientists think about the universe By Paul Johnston February 19, 2018 Books Evolution Secularism and Modernity
Feature Doubling Down on Nukes Judging by the new Nuclear Posture Review, the Pentagon proposes to embark upon an arms race—largely with itself By Andrew J. Bacevich February 19, 2018 Donald Trump War and Peace Domestic Affairs
Feature ‘Cast a Cold Eye’ Christianity may debunk death, but it also regards it as an abomination. What do we do with it? By Terry Eagleton February 17, 2018 Death and Dying Theology Spirituality
Article The Scandal of Firing LGBT Catholics Punitive actions against LGBT Catholics do not reflect the fact that we are at a moment that requires prayerful discernment By John Gehring February 16, 2018 LGBTQ issues Sexuality U.S. Catholicism
Article Strike 3? Editor Paul Baumann responds to a reader who considers Commonweal “elitist” By Paul Baumann February 15, 2018 Donald Trump Media U.S. Catholicism
Feature The Feminist Wife The ambitious woman, the wife, the mother: we are each more complex than the roles we play By Kate Lucky February 15, 2018 Women in the Church Sexuality
Article Meeting the Stranger A Catholic response to refugees and immigration through the pages of Commonweal By The Editors February 14, 2018 Immigration
Article Auden at Commonweal A collection of the writer’s work for the magazine By The Editors February 14, 2018
Article Art in Natural, Revealed, & Christian Religion: Part 2 Art cannot make a man want to become good, but it can prevent him from imagining that he already is By Didymus (W.H. Auden) February 14, 2018 Poetry Ethics