Article Who Are These ‘People’? Synodality can demythologize clerical power, but in order to work, the people it centers must include the vulnerable, not just the elite.By Massimo FaggioliOctober 7, 2021 Vatican II Pope Francis Clericalism Laity
Article ‘Always Together’ An excerpt from ‘Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis’By Pope FrancisSeptember 28, 2021 Pope Francis Vatican II
Article The Limits of ‘Traditionis Custodes’ Anti–Vatican II traditionalism won’t just disappear by papal fiat.By Massimo FaggioliSeptember 2, 2021 Pope Francis Vatican II U.S. Catholicism
Article We’ve Come a Long Way An archival article on the challenges of clericalism a century ago reminds us why we shouldn’t glorify the pre–Vatican II Church.By John W. FarrellAugust 25, 2021 Vatican II U.S. Catholicism Web Exclusive
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.By Paul BaumannJuly 27, 2021 Vatican II Pope Francis U.S. Catholicism
Article A Living Catholic Tradition With his latest motu proprio, Pope Francis confirms the reformed liturgy as normative for the whole Church, reaffirming the Second Vatican Council.By Rita FerroneJuly 23, 2021 Pope Francis Vatican II Liturgy
PoliticsReckoning with Guantánamo The continued existence of Guantánamo Bay is unconscionable. So is the fact that it was ever opened in the first place.By The EditorsSeptember 28, 2021
Religion‘Always Together’ An excerpt from ‘Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis’By Pope FrancisSeptember 28, 2021
CultureIn Awe of All People The late John August Swanson’s ‘Procession’ reminds us that we all walk together, sharing our suffering and our happiness.By Claudia Avila CosnahanSeptember 30, 2021
Books‘Sops to Humanity’ Samuel Moyn’s new book demonstrates how a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself.By Phil KlayOctober 4, 2021
CollectionsConfronting Climate Change Writing from Commonweal on the effects of climate change and our responsibility to care for our common home.By The EditorsSeptember 20, 2021
