'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.”
Contrary to what is typically asked of him, the just man does not need imagination but attention. Poetry, too, requires a kind of pure, focused attention.
In Cambodia, a local environmental group is fighting to protect the Mekong River and rainforest ecosystems from well-funded, government-backed threats.
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.
Louise Glück weaves together poetry and prayer. Kathryn Davis writes of loving, reading, dreaming, and dying. The two leave us unmoored and longing for more.
“Rooting abortion jurisprudence in expressive individualism, the Roe and Casey decisions absolved all of us of our obligation to come to the aid of women in crisis.”
In ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ Martin Scorsese serves up an inversion of history as we have come to know it, revealing his larger aim—the correction of memory.
Conceiving of our deepest selves in terms of neuroses and traumas sends us continually back on ourselves in a way that may reproduce rather than redress our anguish.
