March 2024

VOL. 89, NO. 3

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Features

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Staying grassroots

BY RENÉE RODEN

As the Catholic worker movement enters the digital world, it confronts questions about its place in the real one.

Community of welcome

BY KATIE BAHR

The Kino Border Initiative sets an example in advocating for migrants and refugees.

Columns

THE EXAMINED LIFE

The nature of love

BY YUNUEN TRUJILLO
All love enriches our church.

CULTURE IN CONTEXT

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There’s something in the water!

BY PAMELA HILL NETTLETON
Two recent films about sharks pose the question: Who are the real monsters?

SALT & LIGHT

Walk with Jesus

BY MEGHAN J. CLARK
As we journey through Lent, where does the road to Calvary begin?

MARGIN NOTES

New troubles

BY KEVIN CLARKE
Ireland has its own variant of America firstism raging.

TESTAMENTS

Psalm 151

BY ALICE CAMILLE
There are only 150 psalms in the Hebrew Bible. If you wrote the 151st, what would it say?

GLAD YOU ASKED

Departments

Editors’ Note
You May Be Right (Letters to the Editor)
From the Archives
Poetry
Reviews (Music, Film, Books)
Eye of the Beholder (Art meditation)

Practicing Catholic

Listen to the image

BY JOSEPH MALHAM
Writing icons requires humility to let Christ shine through the plate.

Essays

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My father’s regret

BY EVELYN BENCE
Work is valuable—but maybe you should play a little more.

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You are loved

BY MARK REDMOND
In the face of suffering, sometimes there are no easy answers.

Sounding Board

Growing pains

BY NATHANIEL HUNTER
Parish mergers can build a more just church.

Expert Witness

A deadly myth

An interview with Robert P. Jones
We can’t understand racial violence in this country without going back to Europeans’ first encounters with Indigenous people.

Home Faith

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Adventures in mortality

BY DON CLEMMER
Aging brings a faith-shaking new perspective.