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Students and parishioners of Divine Child Parish in Dearborn, Mich., prepare a makeshift snow chapel for Mass (CNS photo/Valaurian Waller, Detroit Catholic).

The Top Stories of 2025

Our most-read pieces from the year
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December 29, 2025
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The Millennial Saint

It is remarkable and new, not just that web design was a major part of Carlo Acutis’s life, but that the Catholic Church praised it as an integral aspect of his sanctity.
By Vanessa R. Corcoran
September 6, 2025
Religion
Pope Francis
Saints
Pope Leo XIV
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Catholic Traditionalism After Francis

Traditionalism today is less about questioning Vatican II theology and liturgy and more about waging broader culture wars.
By Massimo Faggioli
November 12, 2025
Vatican II
U.S. Catholicism
Pope Francis
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The Cult of Doing Business

Erik Baker’s history of the entrepreneurial work ethic explores the unholy union between American psychology and American business.
By Drew Calvert
April 29, 2025
Politics
Culture
Books
Labor
Article

How to Stop Hating Trump Supporters

How do we learn to love our neighbors who defend the indefensible?
By Stephen J. Pope
March 3, 2025
Religion
Politics
Culture
Donald Trump
Article

‘The Living Vein of Compassion’

Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso reflects on the Church's prophetic role during an era of anti-immigrant scapegoating.
By Bishop Mark J. Seitz
June 1, 2025
Immigration
Politics
U.S. Catholicism
Article

Operation Nietzsche

It is Nietzsche himself who emerges as the most astute critic of all attempts to present his work “objectively."
By Morten Høi Jensen
January 13, 2025
Culture
Books
History
Philosophy
Article

No More Nostalgia

Vatican II is not the final word of the Church’s tradition. But on a number of doctrinal matters, it marked a point of no return.
By Massimo Faggioli
December 8, 2025
Religion
Vatican II
Theology
Pope Leo XIV
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Interregnum Report

Commonweal editors curate a twice-daily roundup of updates about the conclave.
By The Editors
May 12, 2025
Pope Francis
Vatican
Web Exclusive
Pope Leo XIV
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Francis Claps Back

That Francis explicitly rebukes Vance is extraordinary. But then, so too is Vance’s consistent and dangerous demonizing and scapegoating of migrants.
By Griffin Oleynick
February 12, 2025
Immigration
Culture
Politics
Religion
Pope Francis
Donald Trump
Article

An Urgent Exhortation

'Dilexi te' is a forceful call to confront injustices of poverty and inequality—a strong dose of moral clarity at a moment of wanton greed.
By The Editors
October 23, 2025
Religion
Editorial
Poverty
Pope Leo XIV
Pope Francis
Article

Bridge Builder

In the final years of Francis's papacy, Robert Prevost became one of the pontiff's closest collaborators. What clues does their bond hold about Leo's pontificate?
By Austen Ivereigh
May 25, 2025
Pope Leo XIV
Religion

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