Newsweek has contacted Commonweal magazine for comment via email. Wednesday, the National Catholic Register obtained a letter the Word on Fire ministry sent to Commonweal. The ministry criticized ...

The phrase “Idle hands are the devil’s playthings” is one I have always agreed with quite passively, nodding along and taking ...

But what exactly does it mean to place the word “Catholic” before such terms as school, education, or teacher? In his new book What Makes Education Catholic: Spiritual Foundations, the internationally ...

JD Vance’s beloved grandmother — Mamaw, as he called her — hated organized religion, didn’t go to church and hung a drawing ...

In a word: no—a nicely put, flattering "no," to be sure, accompanied by token gestures of concern and respect. But no Catholic in his right mind could fail to see where the power lies ...

Remember the word I spoke to you ... As an example, the January 26, 1998 issue of Time magazine on page 20 claims that the Catholic Church apologized for "collaborating with the Nazis during ...

In a world that was coming to understand the structural underpinnings of poverty and violence, Father Gutiérrez was a prophet ...

Robert Paxton thought the label was overused. But now he’s alarmed by what he sees in global politics — including Trumpism.

Each month, when I face an auditorium full of engaged couples preparing for a Catholic marriage ... Christ's use of the word "eunuch" must have profoundly shocked his Jewish listeners.

From its origins in gambling, to a canvas for artists and political expression, tarot went through one last transformation in ...

The Met’s new exhibition on Siena—the first of its kind in America—shows how the possibilities of strange, colorful ooze ...

Over the last decade or so, Mia Khalifa has been forced to try to find some answers. In 2014, when Khalifa, who was born in ...