2019 marks the 800-year anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s meeting with Egypt’s Sultan Malik al-Kamil during the Fifth Crusade. The dialogue must continue.
Unlike most revolutions, the Irish War of Independence ultimately led to a democracy, not an autocracy ruled by a new gang of tyrants. It deserves to be remembered.
Modi couches taking control of Kashmir as ‘concern’ for its people. But it comes from a hard turn to Hindu nationalism targeting India’s only Muslim-majority state
Australia has cracked down on press freedoms in recent raids. What does it mean when a country that calls itself a democracy attacks one of its defining principles?
What matters at the Amazon synod is not the imperative of universal consistency across all regions of the church, but the pastoral welfare of the People of God.
Poet and novelist Fanny Howe is an experimental writer’s experimental writer, the author of dozens of books, one who remains publicly, committedly Catholic.
Commonweal writers have long engaged with the church’s stance on labor rights, worker justice, and income inequality. Here are the best pieces from our archives.
