November 2023

VOL. 88, NO. 11

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Features

Paint the kingdom

BY JOHN CHRISTMAN

Claretian Father Maximino Cerezo Barredo encourages artists to proclaim God’s liberating message in their own unique contexts.

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The final frontier

BY CASSIDY KLEIN

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

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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

Departments

Editors’ Note
You May Be Right (Letters to the Editor)
From the Archives
Poetry
Reviews (Music, Film, Books)
Eye of the Beholder (Art meditation)

In Person

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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

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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

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Be the village

BY TERESA CODA
Responding to the struggles of an ordinary individual life is a vocation, too.