Article Bringing Mass to a Migrant Camp “In a migrant camp, liturgy is an act of bricolage.”By Susan Bigelow ReynoldsSeptember 1, 2023 Immigration Liturgy Religion Politics
Article A Patriarch Flees Baghdad Cardinal Sako’s flight to Erbil underscores the complex rivalries playing out among Christian warlords in places like Iraq and Lebanon.By Joseph AmarAugust 31, 2023 Religion Middle East Bishops Politics
Article Scoring the Synod’s Working Document “In my opinion, Imbelli read the synodal working document as someone mistrusting Francis’s whole project.”By Peter SteinfelsAugust 23, 2023 Pope Francis Religion Synodality
Article On the Edge of Empires “Happily, Helsinki is not all geopolitical excitement. It is also lumberingly omnipresent trams, for which I quickly come to feel something close to love.”By Paul J. GriffithsAugust 21, 2023 Letters International Politics Religion
Article A Crucial Absence Is the Cross absent from the Synod on Synodality’s working document? Robert P. Imbelli responds to Peter Steinfels.By Robert P. ImbelliAugust 16, 2023 Religion Pope Francis Synodality
Article A Church with Room for Everyone World Youth Day in Lisbon—almost certainly Pope Francis’s last—was a school in solidarity and synodality.By Austen IvereighAugust 11, 2023 Pope Francis Religion Theology Synodality
PoliticsChild Labor Isn’t in the Past We can’t afford to play dumb as labor protections fail and disappear. Treating children like cheap labor costs too much.By Mollie Wilson O’ReillyAugust 6, 2023
ReligionOpus Dei’s Ordinary Secularity In a new history of Opus Dei, two senior members celebrate the group’s embrace of ordinary life.By Daniele PalmerAugust 4, 2023
CultureBarbie the Existentialist Stereotypical Barbie is everything, which is another way of saying that she is nothing.By Santiago RamosAugust 25, 2023
BooksIs Ethics Like Math? A new biography of philosopher Derek Parfit explains the eccentric philosopher's quest to find a legitimate secular moral theory. By Frank B. FarrellAugust 17, 2023
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
