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“Maybe Fiducia supplicans is Francis’s way of telling us that only the pope, not the Synod, is in charge.”

The late Charles R. Morris was undaunted by any intellectual challenge.

Philosopher Emmanuel Falque asks what Christians might now say that could actually matter to their post-Christian contemporaries in the academy or the arts.

Right now is the time for the real Republican Never-Trumpers, those alarmed at the danger he poses to democracy, to stand up.

For Max Weber, freedom is a practice, a mode of self-realization that has its wellspring not in the calculating ego but in the soul.

“Changing the culture of the Times comes across as no less difficult than modernizing operations in the Vatican.”

When Ron DeSantis dropped thirty-six migrants at the door of the Sacramento Catholic diocese, a local interfaith group stepped up.

The key pronoun in Montaigne’s work is not “I” but “we.”

What poet Ishion Hutchinson recovers of West Indian World War I soldiers is the way in which their wounds, lives, and deaths persist.

“For now, the community had settled on radical inclusion—Christians, shamanists, old generation and new, no pressure.”

Commonweal’s editors share their favorite pieces of the year—on the Synod on Synodality, economic inequality, the therapeutic mindset, and much, much more.

“Hopefully, these releases—all introducing poets to English-reading audiences for the first time—will push the door of translation open even wider.”

The further politicization of higher education is collateral damage from the U.S. government’s unqualified support for an unjustly prosecuted war.

She had no spite or worldly cunning, but she refused to massage the egos of those around her or to conceal her overwhelming belief in the rightness of her vision.