Article Will Italy’s Elections Hurt Francis? A new government in Italy could very easily strengthen opposition to Francis. So why has the Vatican been so restrained during the campaign?By Massimo FaggioliSeptember 24, 2022 Italy Far-right Pope Francis Politics
Feature A Country of Churches Ukraine will win the war because it is a country characterized by hope—by the conviction that life can get better through collective effort. By Adrian BonenbergerSeptember 19, 2022 Ukraine Russia War and Peace Foreign Affairs
Feature ‘No Longer a European Export’ Catholicism has become the most multicultural and multilingual institution in the world.By John T. McGreevySeptember 17, 2022 Africa Vatican II Foreign Affairs
Article Learning the Right Questions The best way to remember historian John W. O’Malley, SJ is to read his books—and to thank God for the gracious gift of his learned servant.By Kenneth L. WoodwardSeptember 14, 2022 History John W. O'Malley Obituary Jesuits
Article Building the Culture of Encounter What must we do to develop a true culture of encounter?By Leo J. O’DonovanSeptember 14, 2022 Pope Francis Synodality Bishops Fratelli tutti
Article Abortion in Italy While Italy’s Catholic hierarchy lamented freedom of abortion, it never tried to mount the kind of culture war that U.S. bishops did.By Massimo FaggioliSeptember 11, 2022 Abortion Vatican
PoliticsLock Him Up? Declining to charge Trump for fear of how his supporters might react would concede to him the one thing he’s always wanted: total impunity.By Griffin OleynickAugust 25, 2022
ReligionGood Samaritans? If we were to frame abortion in Samaritan terms, the Dobbs decision returns the wrong issue to the states.By Meghan SullivanAugust 31, 2022
Religion‘There Will Be Surprises’ Pope Francis’s meetings in Rome bring together cardinals from around the world to discuss Curial reform.By Joshua J. McElweeAugust 30, 2022
ReligionEarnest Desire Pope Francis’s letter on liturgical formation challenges and affirms the People of God as a whole. By Rita FerroneAugust 27, 2022
ReligionMaxima Culpa The Church should respond to the horror of unmarked graves in Canadian residential schools with apologies, not evasions.By Matt DinanJuly 15, 2021
CultureThe Paradox of Public Scholarship Public-facing scholarship has become a given for many academics—but at what cost?By Susan Bigelow ReynoldsSeptember 6, 2022
CultureOnly God Could Join Us to God The poet Michael Robbins and theologian David Bentley Hart on Christianity, Yeats, and growing oldBy Michael Robbins & David Bentley HartAugust 30, 2022
BooksWho’s It For? The question “What makes a story ‘good writing’?” can’t be answered until you know who the story is for.By Eve TushnetAugust 7, 2022
CollectionsAbortion After Dobbs Commonweal writers discuss what Dobbs is likely to mean for abortion law, American politics, and the challenge of creating a “culture of life” worthy of the name.By The EditorsAugust 30, 2022
