August 2025
VOL. 90, NO. 8
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Features
Jesus’ manifesto
The Jubilee Year invites important conversations about debt cancelation.
The call of the road
BY ELLYN SANNA
Although the routes have changed, pilgrimage remains a journey of the soul.
Columns
THE EXAMINED LIFE
Shine like the sun
BY FATHER TOM MCGANN, C.M.F.
Two different flashes remind us how divine and human power diverge.
CULTURE IN CONTEXT
Things he can’t leave behind
BY DANNY DUNCAN COLLUM
The U2 frontman’s new Apple TV+ film offers a moving portrait of faith and grief.
SALT & LIGHT
Signs of peace
BY MEGHAN J. CLARK
Liturgy invites us to embody peace by planting seeds of reconciliation in everyday life.
MARGIN NOTES
A knock at the door
BY KEVIN CLARKE
Whose side will you be on when they come for your neighbor?
TESTAMENTS
Even in the depths
BY ALICE CAMILLE
Sometimes, the worst does happen. But the story never ends there.
GLAD YOU ASKED
Where did the rosary come from?
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
In and out of the park
BY CASSIDY KLEIN
Theologian Carmen Nanko-Fernandez sees God at work everywhere—including in Major League ballparks.
Essays
Things with feathers
BY CÉIRE KEALTY
Christian traditions about birds inspire a vision of divine interconnectedness.
Lovable beasts
BY VIKTOR ATHELSTAN
Medieval marginalia, often grotesque and strange, reveal truths about God’s love for creation.
Sounding Board
Community health
BY EMILY REIMER-BARRY
Vaccination is part of our responsibility as ethical Christians, says this moral theologian.
Expert Witness
Welcome the stranger
An interview with Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala
The church must recover its prophetic mission and stand with those whom society discounts.
Home Faith
Wonder years
BY TERESA CODA
Children’s curiosity can invite us into deeper spiritual attentiveness.
