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European history shows how political messianism can destroy the souls of churches. Could that happen in the United States?

Instead of viewing those suffering from mental illness as a threat to be neutralized, police officers must fulfill the duty to serve them.

Daryl Russell Grigsby’s book, grounded in a tradition of Black social justice Catholicism, brings to life the stories of those who try to make of the world a garden.

At the volcano of Popocatépetl, Indigenous traditions and Catholicism come together for Mexican pilgrims.

In the canon of American innovation, Joseph Smith stands alongside Edison, Bell, and the Wright brothers—not for technology, but for theology.

The history of Marian devotion in the Catholic Church is over a millennium old. This weekend, thousands of Catholic pilgrims will gather in Rome to continue this long tradition at the Marian Jubilee.

John Gehring’s 'Reclaiming American Catholicism' is an exhaustive account of Catholicism in the Trump era and all that we face to reclaim the faith.

The sixty-third edition of the New York Film Festival featured works from big-name directors exploring the relationship between art and life.

"I worked with Patrick Jordan at Commonweal for more than twenty years. Pat was one of the most decent people I have ever known."

Patrick Jordan believed that Christians have a responsibility to shape society. He exercised that responsibility primarily through writing.

William Wordsworth’s response to “Nature” was not only spontaneous, but philosophical. His legacy lives on in England’s Lake District.

The commitment of Western liberal democracies to a two-state solution has always rung hollow—and after more than thirty years, it has failed to realize Palestinian human rights.

Genuine religious practice is the art of listening for what no machine will ever pronounce.

Too many political decisions during the pandemic were justified on supposedly scientific grounds when they should have been subject to democratic deliberation and debate.