April 2024

VOL. 89, NO. 4

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Features

Conversations in the Spirit (I, II, and III)

BY CECILIA GONZÁLEZ-ANDRIEU, RHONDA MISKA, AND KELLY ADAMSON

Three women writers find signs of hope that the church is working to break cycles of invisibility.

Walk together

BY JEANNINE M. PITAS

Catholics responding to the opioid epidemic believe that the church can better support those with addictions.

Columns

THE EXAMINED LIFE

Simple wonder

BY FATHER TOM MCGANN, C.M.F.
Pope Francis calls us to a “humbler but more fruitful way” of living.

CULTURE IN CONTEXT

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Across time and space

BY JOHN CHRISTMAN
Doctor Who helps humanize the experiences of people our society tends to “other.”

SALT & LIGHT

True knowing

BY DAVID CLOUTIER
AI will help us get more things done. But does it make us better?

MARGIN NOTES

Hard stop

BY KEVIN CLARKE
Find the courage to curb the savagery of war.

TESTAMENTS

Beware of the spin doctors

BY ALICE CAMILLE
There is nothing new under the sun—not even fake news.

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)

Wise Guides

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Free radical

BY JOHN W. FARRELL
Herbert McCabe offers revolutionary insight into God and humankind.

Essays

Passengers

BY ALLISON CONNELLY-VETTER
Asking for and receiving rides is one small practice that can create a truly interdependent world.

Complicated witness

BY IVAN BREA
Bartolomé de Las Casas’ conversion of heart led him to advocate for Indigenous people.

Sounding Board

Bless you

BY JOHN T. KYLER AND DANI M. JIMÉNEZ
U.S. Catholic contributors respond to Fiducia Supplicans.

Expert Witness

Art for all

An interview with Janet McKenzie
Janet McKenzie’s sacred paintings go beyond stereotypes of race and gender to depict the holy in us all.

Home Faith

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In giving we receive

BY TERESA CODA
Parenthood means being willing to make sacrifices for others—but that might not mean what you think it does.