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

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