February 2025
VOL. 90, NO. 2
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Features
Picture the saints
Artist Grace Morbitzer envisions the saints as models for an inclusive church.
Redemption work
Catholic advocacy groups in Nigeria address an incarceration crisis.
Columns
THE EXAMINED LIFE
Space for silence
BY FATHER TOM MCGANN, C.M.F.
Everyone needs time to listen to God speak.
CULTURE IN CONTEXT
Master of the universe?
BY DANNY DUNCAN COLLUM
Netflix’s Bill Gates series explores global crises but sidesteps deeper questions about power, wealth, and accountability.
SALT & LIGHT
A tangled web
BY MEGHAN J. CLARK
How can Thomas Aquinas guide us in navigating the moral complexities of our imperfect world?
MARGIN NOTES
Have a care
BY KEVIN CLARKE
The U.S. caregiving problem is at a crisis point.
TESTAMENTS
Mark your calendars
BY ALICE CAMILLE
The church calendar can feel mysterious, even to the most devout Catholic.
GLAD YOU ASKED
What is a hermit?
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)
In Person
Faithful farmer
BY ROSIE MORONEY
Catholic Worker Spencer Hess puts a eucharistic vision into practice.
Essays
Bring good news
BY ALESSANDRA HARRIS
Catholics are called to connect with and care for incarcerated individuals.
A human paradigm
BY HEIDI BOSTIC
We need a humanities education that can challenge the technocratic paradigm.
Sounding Board
Set up to fail
BY H.L. NORWICH
Does canon law on marriage need an update?
Expert Witness
Consider the birds
An interview with Petra Gardella and Laurence Krute
There’s a reason birds are so ubiquitous in human religions and mythologies, say these two scholars.
Home Faith
No comment
BY TERESA CODA
Faith calls us to avoid overcomplicating our lives.
