November 2024
VOL. 89, NO. 11
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Features
Peace across the ages
BY JOHN NOBLE
Young Catholic peacemakers are asking the church for mentorship and support.
Columns
THE EXAMINED LIFE
Let it go
BY REBECCA BRATTEN WEISS
Do we really believe our lives are sacred?
CULTURE IN CONTEXT
Anything to win
BY DANNY DUNCAN COLLUM
As sports gambling spreads across the United States, Pete Rose’s legacy highlights the moral hazards of unchecked ambition.
SALT & LIGHT
Beyond law and order
BY BYRON WRATEE
Our current narrative of law-and-order politics contravenes essential Catholic social teaching.
MARGIN NOTES
Carry on
BY KEVIN CLARKE
Vote and live in hope, now and forever.
TESTAMENTS
The social fabric
BY ALICE CAMILLE
This election, focus on the threads that bind us together to avoid apocalyptic thinking.
GLAD YOU ASKED
Who can have a Catholic funeral?
BY XAVIER M. MONTECEL
In Person
Leader of the people
BY CASSIDY KLEIN
Mary Novak believes in affirming the holiness of all people.
Essays
A vote of their own
BY KATHLEEN BONNETTE
Women’s suffrage has a complicated history in the Catholic Church.
Party lines
BY MATTHEW SHADLE
Can a vote for a third party be more than throwing your vote away?
Sounding Board
Confession isn’t therapy
BY NATHANIEL HUNTER
Confession’s best lesson is in how to make a good apology.
Expert Witness
Against fascism
An interview with Eric Martin
Loving your enemy doesn’t mean you must let them win, says this theologian.
Home Faith
Press pause
BY TERESA CODA
Jumping immediately into action is rarely the right move for parents.
