Article Who Are These ‘People’? Synodality can demythologize clerical power, but in order to work, the people it centers must include the vulnerable, not just the elite.By Massimo FaggioliOctober 7, 2021 Vatican II Pope Francis Clericalism Laity
Article In Awe of All People The late John August Swanson’s ‘Procession’ reminds us that we all walk together, sharing our suffering and our happiness.By Claudia Avila CosnahanSeptember 30, 2021 Arts Theology Death and Dying
Article ‘Always Together’ An excerpt from ‘Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis’By Pope FrancisSeptember 28, 2021 Pope Francis Vatican II
Article Confronting 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 Climate Change Environment
Feature Hope & Hesitancy Italy faces a political and religious turning point in the upcoming years. Where will the country go from here?By Massimo FaggioliSeptember 17, 2021 Vatican Foreign Affairs
Article The Spirit in the Assembly The upcoming synod on synodality could be transformative for the Church. But right now, it’s being largely ignored.By Austen IvereighSeptember 16, 2021 Bishops Pope Francis
PoliticsReckoning with Guantánamo The continued existence of Guantánamo Bay is unconscionable. So is the fact that it was ever opened in the first place.By The EditorsSeptember 28, 2021
Religion‘Always Together’ An excerpt from ‘Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis’By Pope FrancisSeptember 28, 2021
CultureIn Awe of All People The late John August Swanson’s ‘Procession’ reminds us that we all walk together, sharing our suffering and our happiness.By Claudia Avila CosnahanSeptember 30, 2021
Books‘Sops to Humanity’ Samuel Moyn’s new book demonstrates how a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself.By Phil KlayOctober 4, 2021
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
