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The Synod on the Family

A Commonweal Reading List
The Editors
October 1, 2014
Synod on the Family

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Article

Great Expectations

The synod comes at a time when a huge gulf has opened up between the teaching of the church on sex, marriage, and the family and the practice of many Catholics.
By John Wilkins
September 10, 2014
Synod on the Family
Bishops
U.S. Catholicism
Pope Francis
Pope John Paul II
Pope Benedict XVI
Secularism and Modernity
Sexuality
Theology
Vatican II
Article

Style & Substance

Pope Francis boldly enlists the legacies of his two predecessors in support of his upcoming Synod on the Family.
By The Editors
April 30, 2014
U.S. Catholicism
Pope Francis
Pope John Paul II
Editorial
Pope Benedict XVI
Vatican II
Article

An Interview with Cardinal Walter Kasper

How is mercy key to understanding God? Commonweal posed this and other questions to Cardinal Walter Kasper.
By Matthew Boudway and Grant Gallicho
May 7, 2014
Synod on the Family
Pope Francis
Bishops
Ecumenism
Pope Benedict XVI
Theology
Vatican II
Web Exclusive
Women in the Church
Article

Separated Faithful

It is past time to alleviate the suffering of Catholics who are confused by a church that teaches the indissolubility of marriages while regularly dissolving them.
By Michael G. Lawler and Todd A. Salzman
September 19, 2013
Pope Francis
U.S. Catholicism
Vatican II
Web Exclusive
Article

On Good Authority?

By Bernard Doering
March 12, 2012
U.S. Catholicism
Article

Information Deficit

By Andrew M. Greeley
July 4, 2004
Article

The Encyclical Crisis

By Bernhard Häring
September 6, 1968
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