Article Letter from Germany Germans across the political spectrum now believe that the United States is much less likely to stand with them in a time of crisis By William Collins Donahue June 9, 2017 Donald Trump Environment Foreign Affairs Climate Change
Article How Are New Ecclesial Movements Changing the Church? The possibility of incardination within priestly fraternities could signal a fundamental shift By Massimo Faggioli June 8, 2017 Vatican II Pope Francis Theology
Article ‘Belief Does Not Embarrass Me’ Allegra Goodman talks about her new novel, Jane Austen and George Eliot, video games, and ‘believing in God and being a Jew’ By Anthony Domestico June 8, 2017 Books Web Exclusive Spirituality
Article Catholicism & the Environment Selected Commonweal stories on Catholicism and climate change By The Editors June 8, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Domestic Affairs Economy Environment Pope Francis Secularism and Modernity
Article A Constitutionally Impossible Relationship You do stupid things when you act like an autocrat in a constitutional democracy By E. J. Dionne Jr. June 8, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Columnists
Article Can this Parish Be Saved? A New Jersey church fighting to remain open sees a potential ally in Newark’s new archbishop, Cardinal Joseph Tobin By Paul Moses June 6, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Bishops Web Exclusive
Article Can Faith Leaders Get Through to John Kelly? More than sixty Catholic university presidents want clarification on the DHS’s deportation policy By John Gehring June 5, 2017 Immigration Social Justice Bishops Donald Trump Web Exclusive
Article ‘This Economy Kills’ The economic ideology favored by people like Arthur Brooks is utterly incompatible with Catholic social teaching; it is a rock of shipwreck. By Anthony Annett June 5, 2017 Economy Ethics Social Justice Poverty Pope Francis
Article Letter from Rome The Vatican returns to celebrating the Feast of Corpus Christi on the actual day of the solemnity By Robert Mickens June 5, 2017 Letter from Rome Pope Francis Pope John Paul II
Feature The War against Just War Few ideas have struck me as more wrong-headed than the belief that an essential step in converting people to nonviolence is the renunciation of just-war theory By Peter Steinfels June 5, 2017 War and Peace Ethics Social Justice
Article Climate of Folly Why are Catholic politicians backing Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Accord? By Anthony Annett June 2, 2017 Environment Donald Trump Foreign Affairs Pope Francis Web Exclusive Climate Change
Article Not the ‘Age of Trump’ What is actually going on is something that Donald Trump hasn’t, won’t, and can’t affect By Andrew J. Bacevich June 2, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Secularism and Modernity
Article Why Health Care Won’t Be a Free Market Two missing ingredients: transparency on price, and transparency on quality By unagidon June 1, 2017 Health Care Domestic Affairs
Feature Just War? Just-war teaching has distracted Catholics from learning and practicing strategic nonviolence. At times it has excused them from even trying By Gerald W. Schlabach May 31, 2017 U.S. Catholicism War and Peace Ethics Domestic Affairs Social Justice
Article Waving & Drowning ‘Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer’ shows how power is certainly seductive, but the seduction is not always sexual By Richard Alleva May 31, 2017 Movies