January 2023
VOL. 88, NO. 1
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Features
Talk is cheap
BY RHINA GUIDOS
Passionate about justice work, young Catholics don’t always agree with church leaders on how best to live out the gospel.
Breaking boundaries
A new youth initiative crosses parish and ecumenical lines to promote equality and engagement.
Columns
THE EXAMINED LIFE
You can do it
BY YUNUEN TRUJILLO
To set New Year’s resolutions that stick, tend to both your own state of mind and your surrounding environment.
CULTURE IN CONTEXT
Big questions
BY JOHN CHRISTMAN
Filmmaker Terrence Malick offers a way of seeing that is in tune with that of mystics and contemplatives.
SALT & LIGHT
Hope, revisited
BY MEGHAN J. CLARK
In this moment of deep division, greater attention to Gaudium et Spes might just be what we need.
MARGIN NOTES
Do you suffer from povertyism?
BY KEVIN CLARKE
When we say, “Blessed are the poor,” what exactly do we mean?
TESTAMENTS
What’s heaven for?
BY ALICE CAMILLE
Heaven isn’t a place where we go after we die but rather the state of unending union with God.
GLAD YOU ASKED
What does the church teach about people of other faiths?
BY JORDAN DENARI DUFFNER
Wise Guides
Child of God
BY MATT KAPPADAKUNNEL
Jesuit Father George Aschenbrenner modeled God’s heart for the world.
Essays
Jesus loves me, this I know
BY TERESA CODA
To teach children about Jesus, remember: There’s a lot they already know.
More than a number
BY ANGELA HOWARD-MCPARLAND
The church must shift its focus when it comes to welcoming new parishioners.
Sounding Board
Faces of Christ
BY SISTER EMILY TEKOLSTE
U.S. Catholic readers share who Jesus is to them.
Expert Witness
A community vocation
An interview with Anthony Campbell
A community-focused police force is a game changer.
Home Faith
Watch your language
BY TERESA CODA
Is good fortune just the luck of the draw?
