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Why doesn't the government work anymore? Marc J. Dunkelman sits down with 'Commonweal' to discuss government procedure, progressive politics, and the "abundance movement."

Dame Mullally’s participation in the Becket Camino represents a sign of ecumenism as she becomes the first woman to lead the Church of England.

Ludwig Wittgenstein believed the age of technology would be the beginning of the end for humanity. The increasing ubiquity of AI may prove him right.

Ann Lee's truest testament was the Shaker community’s practice of care across the boundaries of kinship, gender, and race.

"A violet sky in our eyes / as we walk beside the river, the Great // Wheel’s turning, cherry trees in bloom."

Clifford Thompson writes about his life as an artist and his preoccupation with the passage of time, a theme on display in his new show, ‘Color and Mystery.’

This May, the Women’s Ordination Conference will mark its fiftieth anniversary with another meeting in Detroit, where hundreds of Catholic women will gather to continue their fight for ordination.

Udi Greenberg's history of Catholic-Protestant relations promises more than it delivers—and what it delivers is often wanting.

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Rutger Bregman thinks most of us are wasting our lives. But is there a limit to how much we ought to sacrifice to do good?

"Who would harden their hearts at the voice of God? Probably me, if I’m being honest."

Patti Smith on contemplation, family life, and protecting a sense of wonder.

“Wings out, like the bit of an axe / she hefts the airstream. / Sun flares on her brown belly.”

God isn’t a subject of typical bar conversation, but the partial gospels sometimes found there reveal a desire to justify hope.

A new biography of Arthur Schopenhauer reveals a more compassionate philosopher, whose ethics of solidarity is one we urgently need now.