Young people today are skeptical of institutions and have lower levels of trust in traditional kinds of authority. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
Through her activism and pioneering work in African-American Catholic spirituality, Sr. Thea Bowman challenged the Church to confront its own systemic racism.
As the number of priests declines, parish-life coordinators like Eleanor Sauers are stepping in to fill administrative and spiritual roles across the country.
They get a lot wrong, but we can’t ignore them. They can only be defeated by offering a deeper, more expansive narrative of Catholic political thought.
Joe Biden’s Irish-Catholic background and personal experience of suffering have made him an eloquent and empathetic mourner for people across the political spectrum.
A collection of Commonweal’s writing about ‘Fratelli tutti,’ Pope Francis’s most recent papal encyclical, including the symposium from the December 2020 issue.
