February 2021

VOL. 86, NO. 2

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Features

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‘Hate has no home here’

BY KATIE BAHR

Catholic colleges and universities around the country are taking anti-oppression measures to heart.

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Serve and protect

BY PETER FEUERHERD

Police work is a vocation like any other.

Columns

THE EXAMINED LIFE

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Mend the cracks

BY JESSIE BAZAN
There is beauty in brokenness.

CULTURE IN CONTEXT

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Culture in crisis

BY DANNY DUNCAN COLLUM
Hillbilly Elegy misunderstands the realities of poverty in Appalachia.

SALT & LIGHT

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Paid attention

BY DAVID CLOUTIER
Are you looking at the world through Jesus’ eyes?

MARGIN NOTES

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Dollars and sense

BY KEVIN CLARKE
Racism costs all of us.

TESTAMENTS

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The upward spiral

BY ALICE CAMILLE
To find hope in the darkest of times, imitate Job.

GLAD YOU ASKED

Departments

Editors’ Note
You May Be Right (Letters to the Editor)
Signs of the Times (News)
Catholic Tastes (Humor)
Reviews
Eye of the Beholder (Art meditation)

Expert Witness

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Open minds, open hearts

an interview with Bishop Edward K. Braxton
The church needs to talk about race without judgment, says this bishop emeritus.

Essays

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Hearts lifted up

BY KEVIN P. CONSIDINE
In difficult times, spontaneous prayer delivers salvation beyond suffering.

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Spring of progress

BY PATRICK SAINT-JEAN, S.J.
Like St. Ignatius’ spiritual exercises, anti-racism work is a lifelong commitment.

Sounding Board

A critical lens

BY KATHLEEN BONNETTE
Schools must teach the unvarnished truth about even the most cherished American heroes.

Wise Guides

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Unintended mystic

BY TERESA CODA
Simone Weil was an outsider whose spiritual beliefs embraced nuance and complexity.

Home Faith

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Surrender to the mess

BY DON CLEMMER
A father reflects on parenthood’s lessons of letting go and trusting God.