You know the story. Small-town girl achieves high-powered career success in the big city but can’t find true happiness until she comes back home. No one likes her suit-wearing, city-slicker boyfriend (he wore dress shoes to walk...
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The Canadian series perpetuates tropes about small towns versus big cities—but its depictions of people helping one another are appealing.
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December 2025
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE
Ever ancient, ever new
Digital artists are transforming centuries-old churches into canvases of light.
BY GABRIELLA PATTI
The women behind the pulpit
Catholic women are forming a new generation of preachers—and, sometimes, preaching themselves.
BY KELLY SANKOWSKI
The mothers we missed
From Mary to Herodias, biblical mothers defy expectations and reveal God’s surprising ways, says this biblical scholar.
AN INTERVIEW WITH JENNIFER HOUSTON MCNEEL
Consider the goon
A closer look at a beloved holiday classic inspires a meditation on liberation.
BY PATRICK GALLAGHER
In the bleak midwinter
Advent wasn’t a season of joy for medieval Catholics. Maybe we can learn from their approach to anticipation.
BY ELLYN SANNA
Advent is a season of preparation and anticipation, a road that leads us to the incarnation. We are not to rush through Advent; it is a process we must live through in the same way we live through the creative process.
Dani M. Jiménez
