November 2023
VOL. 88, NO. 11
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Features
Paint the kingdom
Claretian Father Maximino Cerezo Barredo encourages artists to proclaim God’s liberating message in their own unique contexts.
The final frontier
Movements around the country seek to change how people talk about death and dying.
Columns
THE EXAMINED LIFE
Who are your saints?
BY FATHER TOM MCGANN, C.M.F.
All of us have holy people in our lives who help us find our paths.
CULTURE IN CONTEXT
Modern Prometheus
BY DANNY DUNCAN COLLUM
Oppenheimer offers lessons for our current race to develop increasingly dangerous AI technologies.
SALT & LIGHT
Equity ethics
BY DAVID CLOUTIER
The Catholic principle of solidarity calls people of faith to create a just and equitable world.
MARGIN NOTES
Family time
BY KEVIN CLARKE
If children are the future, then why isn’t or nation making this future possible?
TESTAMENTS
And now a warning
BY ALICE CAMILLE
According to the prophet Malachi, God would prefer to lock the doors of the Temple rather than endure half-hearted religious observance.
GLAD YOU ASKED
In Person
Traditions intertwined
BY KELLY SANKOWSKI
Teresa Rojo Tsosie’s eco-activism is rooted in both her Mexican Catholic and Navajo spiritualities.
Essays
All saints
BY BRIAN TERRELL
Dorothy Day’s belief that God calls all people to be saints invites a broader interpretation of holiness.
Memory box
BY EVELYN BENCE
The objects in a small pine box tell the story of a family’s lost loved one.
Sounding Board
The devil you know
BY MICHELLE ARNOLD
What do ordinary Catholics believe about the devil.
Expert Witness
Bodies incarnate
An interview with Cody J. Sanders and Mikeal C. Parsons
Bodies matter to Christians. So Why don’t we do better at taking care of our dead?
Home Faith
Be the village
BY TERESA CODA
Responding to the struggles of an ordinary individual life is a vocation, too.