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Ep. 154 - The Counterweight: Reclaiming Catholic Social Teaching
Since becoming pope, Leo XIV has reminded us that the Catholic Church “offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching.” That tradition is esp…
8 months, 1 week ago
Ep. 153 - It’s Just Wrong
Season 1 Episode 153
For decades, public support for the death penalty in the United States has been declining. But in recent years, the number of executions has risen sh…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Ep. 152 - Crypto-Religiosity
Season 1 Episode 152
It’s often remarked that America has become less religious, especially during recent decades. But what if that religiosity hasn’t disappeared, but ju…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Ep. 151 - The First U.S. Pontiff
Season 1 Episode 151
The swift elevation to the papacy of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost—known simply as ‘Bob’ among his fellow Augustinian friars—defied pu…
10 months, 1 week ago
Ep. 150 - Remembering Francis
Season 1 Episode 150
Three theologians—Massimo Faggioli, Susan Bigelow Reynolds, and Terence Sweeney—reflect with Commonweal editors on the pope’s legacy.
More coverage of…
11 months, 1 week ago
Ep. 149 - When the Good Book Isn’t a Book
Season 1 Episode 149
Catholics listen to snippets of the Bible read every Sunday, but how many of them actually sit with and ponder the text?
It’s long been a truism that…
1 year ago
Ep. 148 - What Novels Do
Season 1 Episode 148
What should great fiction do for us?
That’s the question asked by Edwin Frank, editorial director of New York Review Books and author of Stranger tha…
1 year ago
Ep. 147 - The New ‘Preeminent Urgency’
Season 1 Episode 147
In his first month back in office, Donald Trump has made cruelty toward migrants and refugees central to his agenda, while J. D. Vance has used his f…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ep. 146 - Aging in America
Season 1 Episode 146
Fights over federal spending usually follow a predictable pattern, with Republicans attempting to cut entitlement programs as Democrats seek to expan…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ep. 145 - Memory Matters
Season 1 Episode 145
For as long as humans beings have existed, we have had a knack for forgetting—not only when memory proves difficult, but when it becomes inconvenient…
1 year, 2 months ago