Commonweal’s editors share their favorite pieces of the year—on the Synod on Synodality, economic inequality, the therapeutic mindset, and much, much 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 the early decades of the twenty-first century, historians will say, the Church sought a new way of operating that would allow it to travel into a new era.
The work of Louis Bouyer—one of the twentieth century’s greatest theologians—illuminates the full Christological richness of the Second Vatican Council.
The testimonies of witnesses to impossible events vivify the past. They allow us a glimpse of the world as some of those who lived long ago actually saw it.
“Happily, Helsinki is not all geopolitical excitement. It is also lumberingly omnipresent trams, for which I quickly come to feel something close to love.”
Trump’s entire project is to overturn the sexual and civil-rights revolutions. Jeff Sharlet’s new book suggests Trump has a whole army ready to help him.
There is an obvious tension between how to be “successful” on social media and how to represent the Catholic faith. Why is the Vatican ignoring this fact?
Beyond his many accomplishments as a theologian and public intellectual, Tim Keller ultimately triumphed as a pastor—as a man who shared the good news with kindness.
