Article What the FBI ‘Anti-Catholic’ Memo Gets Right An FBI memo rightly highlights the extremist rhetoric of some “Rad Trad” Catholics. But its proposal to infiltrate churches reveals a failure to learn from the past.By Paul MosesMarch 9, 2023 Politics Religion Far-right
Article Assisted Suicide & the Cure of Souls A priest asks: How can Christian pastors—and others committed to a Christian vision of dying—remain faithful amid the rise of assisted suicide?By Cole HartinMarch 1, 2023 Death and Dying Religion Politics
Article Francis After Ten Years As we approach the tenth anniversary of his election, Pope Francis continues to possess a kind of Californian optimism about the world and the Church.By Paul BaumannFebruary 26, 2023 Pope Francis Bishops Religion
Article Remapping Jerusalem Journalist Matthew Teller’s myth-busting exploration of Jerusalem shines a welcome light on the staggering diversity of the city today.By Tom VerdeFebruary 19, 2023 Religion Books Jewish-Christian Relations
Article Religious Seekers, or Cultural Thieves? A new book on religious appropriation provokes the question: how to distinguish spiritual seeking from cultural theft?By Katherine LuckyFebruary 13, 2023 Books Religion Culture
Article Too Many Catholic Justices? Does legal journalist Linda Greenhouse have a problem with Catholics?By Paul BaumannFebruary 8, 2023 Supreme Court Abortion Politics Religion
PoliticsAll a Matter of Perspective? Can Catholic health care find a viable middle way between strident voices on both the Right and Left?By Bernard G. PrusakJanuary 27, 2023
ReligionRenunciation and Christian Happiness If union with God in self-sacrificing love is the highest end of a life, providing true happiness, how can we achieve it?By Zena HitzMarch 20, 2023
CultureOn Tradition and the Passion Play How a Bavarian village’s once-a-decade Passion play became a wrenching, intimate, sometimes chaotic psychological theo-dramaBy Susan Bigelow ReynoldsMarch 15, 2023
BooksTwo Sides of Dignity By letting civility happen, we take better care not only of others and of the world itself, but of ourselves.By Costică BrădăţanNovember 2, 2022
BooksWork of Human Hands We shouldn’t be fearful of further transformations in the appearance of the Bible. The Word of God can speak as well in a laptop as from a manuscript.By Luke Timothy JohnsonAugust 19, 2022
CollectionsPope Francis at Ten Years A wide-ranging collection of Commonweal’s coverage of the remarkable pontificate of Pope Francis.By The EditorsMarch 12, 2023
