Paul Baumann

Like all human institutions, the Church has often failed. But it is more than its failures—and much more than the endless quarrels over Vatican II or sexual morality.

Leon Wieseltier insists that metaphysics asks right questions about God, matter, and morality—even if it cannot provide all the answers.

In light of the political ascendancy of “manly men” like Hegseth, I have been taking even more solace in the small rituals of Advent.

What might J. D. Vance’s ascendancy to the vice presidency tell us about American Catholicism?

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