January 2022

VOL. 87, NO. 1

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Features

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Remember the fathers

BY LAURA KELLY FANUCCI

Grieving dads need support. How can the church help?

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Treading water

BY TERESA CODA

A decades-long study on vulnerable families can help inform the church’s pro-life agenda.

Columns

THE EXAMINED LIFE

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New growth

BY JOHN CHRISTMAN, S.S.S.
What can you let go of this year?

CULTURE IN CONTEXT

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Social work

BY DANNY DUNCAN COLLUM
The Netflix series Maid highlights the need for public policy that supports families.

SALT & LIGHT

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From the ground up

BY MEGHAN J. CLARK
A Jesuit’s legacy leaves us the tools to build a more just global community.

MARGIN NOTES

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Our big family

BY KEVIN CLARKE
Human life is not only sacred—it’s social.

TESTAMENTS

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No place like home

BY ALICE CAMILLE
Home is a sacred place, not just a space to store our stuff.

GLAD YOU ASKED

Departments

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

Expert Witness

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Domestic church

an interview with Christina R. Zaker
Family spirituality benefits everyone, says this practical theologian.

Essays

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Seen and heard

BY SHANNON K. EVANS
Catholic family values mean more than obedience.

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More than one kind of mother

BY JESSIE VERM
A mom learns lessons in parenting from her foster daughter.

Sounding Board

Planning parenthood

BY JOHN T. GROSSO
How do you know when it’s the right time to have a baby?

Wise Guides

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Guided by love

BY PATRICK SAINT-JEAN, S.J.
At a fork in the road, St. Ignatius stumbled into God’s grace.

Home Faith

Don’t worry

BY DON CLEMMER
Avoid the doom scroll and choose hope.