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

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.

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.

Talk to me. Tell me anything.

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?

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

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

On Holy Wednesday, the procession of Cristo de los Gitanos in Granada fuses religious tradition with flamenco spirit.

When literature was still recognized as an incomparable source of liberty and dignity to millions, the CIA spent decades distributing banned books behind the Iron Curtain.

"I saw Jesus today."

Trump has made the world less stable, alienated our allies, and further degraded the moral standing of the United States.

Trump-appointed border czar Tom Homan is a lifelong Catholic, but do his zero-tolerance immigration policies align with Church teaching?

With U.S. and Israeli bombs dropping on Tehran, Europe is once again cowed into silence because of its addiction to American power.