The Synod on the Family

A Commonweal Reading List

October 1, 2014

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.

September 10, 2014

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

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

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

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

From the Archives

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Politics

Bringing the Workers on Board

Codetermination, or the practice of including workers on corporate boards, is not only deeply rooted in the Catholic tradition; it aids democracy in the workplace

By Matt Mazewski

March 14, 2019

Religion

Catholic Moral Theology’s False Crisis

Some Catholic moral theologians have recently expressed doubts about the fidelity of scholars in the field to the magisterium. But such doubts are unfounded.

By Cathleen Kaveny

March 13, 2019

Culture

Giving Up Extremes

As Lent approaches, I’ve been in a state of spiritual anxiety over the inevitable renunciation that the season demands. God wants harmonious balance, not excess

By Nicole-Ann Lobo

March 3, 2019