March 2024
VOL. 89, NO. 3
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Features
Staying grassroots
BY RENÉE RODEN
As the Catholic worker movement enters the digital world, it confronts questions about its place in the real one.
Community of welcome
BY KATIE BAHR
The Kino Border Initiative sets an example in advocating for migrants and refugees.
Columns
THE EXAMINED LIFE
The nature of love
BY YUNUEN TRUJILLO
All love enriches our church.
CULTURE IN CONTEXT
There’s something in the water!
BY PAMELA HILL NETTLETON
Two recent films about sharks pose the question: Who are the real monsters?
SALT & LIGHT
Walk with Jesus
BY MEGHAN J. CLARK
As we journey through Lent, where does the road to Calvary begin?
MARGIN NOTES
New troubles
BY KEVIN CLARKE
Ireland has its own variant of America firstism raging.
TESTAMENTS
Psalm 151
BY ALICE CAMILLE
There are only 150 psalms in the Hebrew Bible. If you wrote the 151st, what would it say?
GLAD YOU ASKED
Practicing Catholic
Listen to the image
BY JOSEPH MALHAM
Writing icons requires humility to let Christ shine through the plate.
Essays
My father’s regret
BY EVELYN BENCE
Work is valuable—but maybe you should play a little more.
You are loved
BY MARK REDMOND
In the face of suffering, sometimes there are no easy answers.
Sounding Board
Growing pains
BY NATHANIEL HUNTER
Parish mergers can build a more just church.
Expert Witness
A deadly myth
An interview with Robert P. Jones
We can’t understand racial violence in this country without going back to Europeans’ first encounters with Indigenous people.
Home Faith
Adventures in mortality
BY DON CLEMMER
Aging brings a faith-shaking new perspective.