Religion

A truly Christian postliberalism would imagine and enact an alternative modernity with a different standard of progress.

Gay communities have been havens for expressions of love, selflessness, covenant, and care that were in danger of being lost in the modern world.

It will be the job of Commonweal, as it always has been, to resist the pressures of contemporary secular culture.

Timothy Morton, one of the most influential environmental philosophers of the past two decades, has found Jesus.

What can inspire a return to faith beyond a cultural-fortress mentality?

… Catholic Register , the theologian Larry Chapp usually brings a more measured tone to … although he, too, can sometimes fulminate. Chapp remembers all too well what he … to bring back. Like other critics of Francis, Chapp seems to have a great deal of tolerance …

The seeds of peace will be planted in Lebanon and throughout the Middle East when justice comes for the people of Palestine.

It's about time faithful Catholics in America embrace their political homelessness.

When every initiation stands contrary to my parents' idea of filial piety, my only choices feel like stay or go, belong or don’t.

Patrick MacGill was a self-taught polymath, a celebrated poet and fiction-writer. He was also my grandfather.

The Synod can bring about a more evangelizing Church if it foments an inclusive Catholicism of women in ministry.

The eminent philosopher Charles Taylor discusses Romantic poetry's response to modern disenchantment.

Pope Francis has gone further than any of his predecessors in recognizing the value of non-Christian traditions.

Gary Dorrien remembers his tumultuous adventures in post-Kantian philosophy and democratic socialist organizing.

A certain kind of obstinate weirdness is a first step to autocracy.

… of vice-presidential candidate J. D. Vance also seems to have struck a nerve. But … invasion of Ukraine. There are the lies that Vance and Donald Trump are telling about …

David Jones’ 'In Parenthesis' is "the greatest work of modernist poetry you’ve never read."

"We’re trying very hard to persuade people who don’t know anything about who we are, or what 'Catholic' stands for, of our values and our identity."

"Clinging to space closes off any hope for peace, while exile exposes the Jews to the dangers of the Diaspora."

Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn’s memoir is a testament to the depth of a daughter’s love—and an act of faith in our better human instincts.

"Homilies make illiterates of us all. We receive them aurally or we don’t receive them: from the preacher’s lips to our ears."

There is plenty of passion in favor of women’s ordination. But it’s not in the grassroots.

Theologian Richard Gaillardetz's final book wrestles with how to live with death approaching.

"As I made my way to the bus station to travel back to Matameye, I bade farewell to the deities that haunt Zinder, city of baffled desire."

Though the Synod itself will conclude on October 27, the “synodal process” that Pope Francis called for in 2021 will carry on.

‘Fiducia supplicans’ seems written to reinforce very stubborn ideas: that there is a proper place for liturgy and that married gay people do not belong there.

Servant leaders combine humility with action. St. Clare of Assisi was an exemplary model.

Should grief be conceptualized as a medical disorder? What are the likely consequences of treating it this way?

Janine Giordano Drake’s new book locates institutional Protestant complicity with capital at the root of America's social ills.

"Where, I wonder, will my generation of theologians seek vocational sustenance?"

In her reading of Genesis, Marilynne Robinson honors humanness while affirming the divine.

“Would the ordination of deaconesses in one apostolic lung of the Church make it easier for the other?”

A controversial historical claim grounds MAGA evangelicalism's embrace of the "Appeal to Heaven" flag.

If we want to become a synodal Church, we need a pastoral conversion that helps us see young people as the assets they are.

This election cycle, Catholic conservatives don’t seem to be quite as enthusiastic about Trump as their white Evangelical counterparts.

"I would like to ask Bishop John O. Barres why he feels I should not be allowed back in a diocesan classroom."

If the Church really believes in the indelible dignity of LGBTQ+ persons, it can’t just express sorrow for past abuses or offer words of welcome. It has to actually do something.

'Dignitas Infinita' does have good suggestions for addressing questions about sex, gender, and rights. They just don’t appear in the “Gender Theory” section.

Could Francis have shown more loving compassion toward his father than he has been given credit for?

Like so many magisterial documents, 'Dignitas' tends to state the Church’s teaching rather than explicate or argue for it.

In the months since October 7, antisemitism has reared its ugly head in the most idyllic places.

Theologian Brian D. Robinette has gifted us with a thoughtful work about God’s utterly gratuitous gift of creation, redemption, and fulfillment in Christ.

'Dignitas Infinita' provides a new way to navigate between secular human rights and the Church.

In 'Zero at the Bone,' Christian Wiman presses poetry into the service of faith.

Christ sacrificed himself out of solidarity with our plight, because he wanted to give us the means to become like God.

What modern Christians can learn from Christ’s encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well

'Dignitas Infinita' fails to apprehend even the basic situation of transgender people and therefore provides no useful intellectual or moral guidance for transgender Catholics.