January 2021
VOL. 86, NO. 1
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Features
Columns
THE EXAMINED LIFE
Unbreakable
BY EMILY SANNA
It’s never too late to make amends.
CULTURE IN CONTEXT
Warts and all
BY PAMELA HILL NETTLETON
Expecting Amy and Schitt’s Creek get families right.
SALT & LIGHT
Have mercy on us
BY MEGHAN J. CLARK
Reclaiming devotion to the Sacred Heart can draw today’s faithful into a deep reflection about where our own hearts are directed.
MARGIN NOTES
Dodging dollars
BY KEVIN CLARKE
Is tax evasion sinful?
TESTAMENTS
Healing mysteries
BY ALICE CAMILLE
Let’s add to the mysteries of the rosary.
GLAD YOU ASKED
Departments
Editors’ Note
You May Be Right (Letters to the Editor)
Signs of the Times (News)
Catholic Tastes (Humor)
Reviews
Eye of the Beholder (Art meditation)
Expert Witness
From immigrant to idealist
an interview with Samantha Power
Faith and idealism fuel the lifelong activism of the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Essays
Single fellowship
BY JANA M. BENNETT
Some Catholics are single; that doesn’t mean they are alone.
Unto us a child is born
BY AGNES R. HOWARD
Pregnancy underscores the work we all do to care for one another.
Sounding Board
Good work
BY SIMEIQI HE
Your job, your child, your spouse—they’re all part of the vocation of love.
Practicing Catholic
Find your roots
BY MSGR. BERNARD W. BOURGEOIS
A Catholic traces the strands of faith in his family tree.
Home Faith
Lace up
BY SUSAN SALAZ
Running puts prayer into graceful motion.
