Paul Baumann

Article

Breaking the Spell

Focusing exclusively on the Church’s putative usefulness in the here and now often causes us to lose sight of other realities.

By Paul Baumann

August 27, 2021

U.S. Catholicism

Pope Francis

Media

Article

The Liturgy Wars

The Tridentine rite won’t bring back a golden age in the Church. But defenders of liturgical reform shouldn’t be complacent about their own problems.

July 27, 2021

Article

The Standoff Over Women’s Ordination

The Church needs to give women decision-making authority, but ordination may not be the only—or indeed the most successful—path to achieve that end.

By Paul Baumann

July 13, 2021

Women in the Church

Article

Keeping It Together

Progressive and conservative Catholics should both seek to avoid deepening fractures in the Church.

May 25, 2021

Article

From Buckley to Trump

The conservatism of William F. Buckley Jr., the “larger-than-life” editor of the National Review, shaped our current political climate.

By Paul Baumann

May 6, 2021

Domestic Affairs

Article

The Beauty of the Incomprehensible

In her new book, Karen Kilby leads even a lay reader through theoretical thickets with a gentle and steady hand.

By Paul Baumann

April 20, 2021

Theology

Books

Must Reads

Politics

Visionary Gradualist Pressure

To Michael Harrington, socialism was the idea of a society in which certain fundamental limitations of human existence are transcended.

By Gary Dorrien

September 8, 2021

Religion

A Beautiful Day, A Horrible Event

From the archives: Faith in the Resurrection does not cancel out what happens on the cross; the cross is its beginning.

By John Garvey

September 11, 2021

Religion

The Limits of ‘Traditionis Custodes’

Anti–Vatican II traditionalism won’t just disappear by papal fiat.

By Massimo Faggioli

September 2, 2021

Culture

The Same Anew

The poet Donald Revell believes that seeing—true seeing, ecstatic seeing—is the poet’s real task.

By Anthony Domestico

September 2, 2021

Culture

There Ought to Be a Law

The law is one thing, morality another. Conflating them flattens our public morality into a deadening binary.

By Matthew Boudway

May 24, 2021

Books

Learning What to Want

Not all aesthetic consumption is equal, and developing the ability to judge the art we encounter can help transform us.

By Nate Klug

September 8, 2021

Collections

Confronting Climate Change

Writing from Commonweal on the effects of climate change and our responsibility to care for our common home.

By The Editors

September 20, 2021