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Peace & Justice

Is there a better way to be a man?

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The cliché of the young man in his mother’s basement spending hours playing video games has taken hold of our imagination, but sadly this cliché has real-world truth and implications. Many young men are dropping out of...

February 2025

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE

Picture the saints

Artist Grace Morbitzer envisions the saints as models for an inclusive church.
BY JEAN P. KELLY

Redemption work

Catholic advocacy groups in Nigeria address an incarceration crisis.
BY VALENTINE BENJAMIN

Consider the birds

There’s a reason birds are so ubiquitous in human religions and mythologies, say these two scholars.
AN INTERVIEW WITH PETRA GARDELLA AND LAURENCE KRUTE

Bring good news

Catholics are called to connect with and care for incarcerated individuals.
BY ALESSANDRA HARRIS

A human paradigm

We need a humanities education that can challenge the technocratic paradigm.
BY HEIDI BOSTIC

“My prayer for our nation is that we have the courage to recommit ourselves to dismantling the structures that perpetuate a culture of death and to building up a culture of life.”

Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, Catholic Mobilizing Network