If the institutional Church takes seriously the call to synodality, then its clergy must be willing to humbly consider the Spirit that moves its people.
Sohrab Ahmari’s latest book attempts to answer fundamental questions. But his foggy appeal to tradition misunderstands its purpose and potential in our lives.
Pope Francis’s motu proprio, ‘Traditionis custodes,’ stirred controversy in the Church. Commonweal writers help unpack its motives and potential consequences.
The defense of ‘Traditionis custodes’ often relies on an oversimplified view of traditionalists, one that diverges from Pope Francis’s typical emphasis on dialogue.
On this episode, historian Charles Gallagher tells the story of the Christian Front, an extremist Catholic group that plotted a 1940 takeover of the U.S. government.
In the face of precariousness and uncertainty, religious orders and lay Catholic communities model how to live in relation with both one other and God.
If the Eucharist is an encounter with the living person of Jesus Christ, then disaffiliation from the Eucharistic liturgy is defection from Jesus Christ himself.
Catholic universities should be open circles: accepting a wide variety of viewpoints without succumbing to a “free market” of ideas that rejects transcendence.
The challenges of Eucharistic coherence and abortion require distinct responses from American bishops. Trying to address them together will only harm them both.
Too often during the pandemic, the Church encouraged us to resent the inconveniences of social distancing instead of supporting us in bearing this cross together.
Mollie Wilson O’Reilly speaks about the U.S. bishops’ misguided approach to President Biden, their missteps in responding to Trump, and other missed opportunities.
