Pope Francis also made a ground-breaking first call to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Past 1.5 degrees, the effects of climate change become catastrophic. Pope Francis told the fossil…

By Matthew Fox, June 10, 2019 In yesterday’s video, speaking about the Sacred Masculine archetype of the Grandfather, I quite spontaneously invoked my mentor, Père M. D. Chenu, who named…

By Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, Center for Action and Contemplation In mythic imagination, I think Mary intuitively symbolizes the first incarnation—or Mother Earth. I am not saying Mary is the first…

Maryknoll Sisters Julia Shideler, Anastasia Lee and Abby Avelino smile as they process from the chapel in 2014 after professing their final vows during Mass at the Maryknoll Sisters Center…

Sr. Joan Brown is a longtime friend and Franciscan, serving as Executive Director of New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light, a nonprofit that works for climate justice. She writes about…

Arendt’s idea was that the root of politics is spontaneity—the unforeseen and democratic gathering of people to change history. Excerpt from Hannah Arendt’s Politics of Possibility in Commonweal, by John Thomason, June 3, 2019, Philosophy,…

“People are increasingly aware that our Church remains diseased by the three deadly viruses flagged early in Vatican II: legalism, triumphalism, and clericalism. Those viruses generated among leadership pride, secrecy,…

By Massimo Faggioli, LaCroix, June 2019 This year marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, when the Allied troops invaded Normandy on June 6, 1944. Just two days earlier the Allies had…