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The complex, sometimes romanticized, but ultimately prophetic Catholic peace movement has critical lessons to teach today's America amid a genocidal war in Gaza.

John Rodden writes on a relative entrusted with a momentous task: organizing the burial of Pope Francis.

"From where I was standing, the pope was a tiny white speck. That was okay. Having been granted eyes that could really see, I was finally using them in Rome."

Commonweal editors curate a twice-daily roundup of updates about the conclave.

A mesmerizing new production of Richard Strauss’s Salome at the Met Opera offers viewers a violent, mind-bending staging of the biblical texts.

Theologian David Tracy was absorbed by the sheer ineffability of God—and by the absolute need to speak of God nonetheless.

“Reversing course” on the AfD would mean undoing the struggle of generations against the legacy of Nazism.

"In this holy chaos, my first feeling was joy. I didn’t know what this new pope portended for the life of the Church, and it didn’t matter."

Francis was “of the people” in his understanding of theology: he drew on popular rituals and the stuff of daily life as theological sources.

It’s tempting just to treat the conclave as a political event; it’s also tempting just to focus on the workings of the Holy Spirit.

The process of selecting the next Vicar of Christ has evolved considerably since the founding of the Church. Here is a guide to the mysteries of the conclave.

After his losses in the boxing rink, George Foreman evolved from being a wrathful Goliath to an intensely jovial servant to others.