We don’t know for certain what kind of branches were used to welcome Jesus in Jerusalem. What matters most is that Jesus came home, and his return was a victory.
There are two difficulties with writing about Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. One is saying anything fresh about them. The other is seeing them at all.
"This Laetare Sunday, then, I do want to focus on God’s love and my sins in light of God’s love, but not to the point of apathy, and instead to the point of further struggle."
A new staging of ‘La forza del destino’ offers audiences the chance to ponder the paradoxes at the heart of what is often considered Verdi's most “Catholic” opera.
'Laudate Deum' does not merely restate Pope Francis's commitment to the environment. It calls us with greater urgency to change the systems feeding climate change.
“Denial of the self is a traditional Christian spiritual practice that has its benefits, but this Lent I feel moved to a radical acceptance of the self.”
Philosopher Emmanuel Falque asks what Christians might now say that could actually matter to their post-Christian contemporaries in the academy or the arts.
Commonweal’s editors share their favorite pieces of the year—on the Synod on Synodality, economic inequality, the therapeutic mindset, and much, much more.
She had no spite or worldly cunning, but she refused to massage the egos of those around her or to conceal her overwhelming belief in the rightness of her vision.
