It’s been one year since the El Paso massacre. In this two-part episode, we speak with El Paso natives about how life has and hasn’t changed along the border.
This time of pandemic and mass interracial demonstrations has revealed gaping wounds in our body politic. The ancient homilist Origen can help us heal them.
While St. Ephrem of Syria did not explicitly call for ordination of women to the diaconate, he envisioned radical equality between the sexes in ministry.
Catholics may accept evolution now, but it wasn’t always so. The bunker-mentality of nineteenth-century Neo-Scholasticism damaged Catholic theology for decades.
The gift of the Holy Spirit allows us to passionately fight for the peace of Christ, a peace far greater than the one offered by oppressive authorities.
George Scialabba has provided not just a profound account of depression, but a reminder of how precarious our lives can be, and how much we need each other.
COVID-19 has profoundly affected our daily lives. Catch up with some of Commonweal’s best writing on the political and spiritual ramifications of the virus.
