Article A Win-Win-Win? We can do better than parish mergers—the parish director model promotes lay leadership and keeps parishes intact in the face of priest shortages.By Jon MetzMay 18, 2023 The American Parish Today Priesthood Bishops Religion
Article Do Priests Have a Right to Privacy? Is it moral to spend millions of dollars to turn peoples’ cell-phone data into a tracking device for wayward clerics?By Cathleen KavenyApril 27, 2023 Priesthood Sexuality Bishops Religion
The Parson’s Office Poet and Episcopal priest Spencer Reece speaks about his new memoir, The Secret Gospel of Mark. Poetry Priesthood
Article Facing Down the Wolf A gay Catholic priest speaks about living fully, courageously, and truthfully in God’s all-encompassing love. By James AlisonJune 10, 2020 LGBTQ issues Priesthood Theology
Article Heralds & Servants There’s no conflict between a deacon’s role as herald and servant. Both are necessary.By William T. DitewigMay 29, 2020 Priesthood Pope Francis Theology
Article Too Much Theory Deeply symbolic and theological language about both the priesthood and the diaconate sometimes ends up stifling creative thinking about their futures.By Thomas BakerMay 29, 2020 Pope Francis Theology Priesthood
PoliticsHow Not to Defend Liberalism Technocratic neoliberalism is not the rightful heir of the liberal tradition, but an anti-democratic distortion of it.By Alexander SternSeptember 14, 2023
ReligionBringing Mass to a Migrant Camp “In a migrant camp, liturgy is an act of bricolage.”By Susan Bigelow ReynoldsSeptember 1, 2023
CultureDancing Around Death A new exhibit brings together Tibetan Buddhist and European Christian art, inviting visitors to ponder their ambivalence surrounding death.By Xiao SituSeptember 14, 2023
BooksHelen Keller, Christian Socialist Helen Keller's public image is benignly inspiring. A new book digs into her identity as a radical Leftist whose politics were rooted in her faith.By Nick TaborSeptember 13, 2023
CollectionsConfronting Climate Change Writing from Commonweal on the effects of climate change and our responsibility to care for our common home.By The EditorsSeptember 20, 2021
