The awkward conversation between the LCWR and the CDF may turn out to be just the kind of encounter the church needs.

Big campaign donations threaten the common good by allowing big donors to drown out the voices of ordinary voters both before and after elections.

We are now beginning to see the consequences of Red State hostility to health-care reform, and they are devastating for the poor.

How is mercy key to understanding God? Commonweal posed this and other questions to Cardinal Walter Kasper.

Commonweal is celebrating ninety years of publication by featuring some of the best stories from each of our nine decades in print. Here we highlight the 1940s.

Pope Francis boldly enlists the legacies of his two predecessors in support of his upcoming Synod on the Family.

According to Thomas Piketty, the U.S. is the most inegalitarian nation in the world, and on current trends may soon become the most inegalitarian nation in history.

How should a fair-minded biographer deal with a literary subject’s “sensational underside,” and when does that endeavor turn into "pathography"?

The poet discusses "accidental theologies," Gerard Manley Hopkins, faith in literature, and what it's like no longer being the editor of Poetry magazine.

John XXIII had a program of updating; John Paul II was seen as bringing a degree of Restoration. How do their two very different legacies relate to each other?