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Peter Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal magazine and religion reporter and columnist for The New York Times. In 2004, he and Margaret O’Brien Steinfels founded the Center for Religion and Culture at Fordham University.
A woman supporting abortion rights shouts at anti-abortion protesters outside the South Carolina Statehouse on July 7, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Peter Steinfels
The bishops’ conciliatory statements are being overshadowed by the specter of punitive cruelty toward women confronting crisis pregnancies. They must speak out again.
Arts & CultureBooks
Peter Steinfels
To those of us who campaigned against the Vietnam War as unjust and unwinnable, Daniel Ellsberg was a hero.
Books
Peter Steinfels
Three biographies of Pope Francis
Books
Peter Steinfels
Did religious bodies that once wrestled with the morality of Vietnam war learn any lasting lesson?
Peter Steinfels
Weighing the moral authority of bishops