Circle of Hope By Eliza Griswold (Macmillan Publishers, 2024) Church is a place where many people hope to find peace, but churches are made up of human beings, so is peace truly possible? Eliza Griswold’s Circle of Hope focuses...
What we’re reading this month: January 2025
The books U.S. Catholic writers have enjoyed this month, including “Circle of Hope” and “Living on Earth.”
New from our staff
January 2025
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE
Let it move you
In jazz and in Catholicism, tradition is a place to start, not to end.
BY JEROMIAH TAYLOR
Beyond beautiful
The Catholic tradition has a long and complicated relationship with beauty.
BY RENÉE RODEN
Forgive them not
Our obsession with forgiveness can benefit the powerful at the expense of the vulnerable.
AN INTERVIEW WITH KAYA OAKES
Free women
The Beguines challenged societal expectations in their fervor to follow Jesus.
BY ELLYN SANNA
United we stand
A new art series celebrates the call to build bridges
BY JOE MALHAM
“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
