November 2024

VOL. 89, NO. 11

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Features

Grave matters

BY RENÉE RODEN

Facing death equips us to better deal with its reality.

Peace across the ages

BY JOHN NOBLE

Young Catholic peacemakers are asking the church for mentorship and support.

Columns

THE EXAMINED LIFE

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Let it go

BY REBECCA BRATTEN WEISS
Do we really believe our lives are sacred?

CULTURE IN CONTEXT

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Anything to win

BY DANNY DUNCAN COLLUM
As sports gambling spreads across the United States, Pete Rose’s legacy highlights the moral hazards of unchecked ambition.

SALT & LIGHT

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Beyond law and order

BY BYRON WRATEE
Our current narrative of law-and-order politics contravenes essential Catholic social teaching.

MARGIN NOTES

Carry on

BY KEVIN CLARKE
Vote and live in hope, now and forever.

TESTAMENTS

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The social fabric

BY ALICE CAMILLE
This election, focus on the threads that bind us together to avoid apocalyptic thinking.

GLAD YOU ASKED

Who can have a Catholic funeral?

BY XAVIER M. MONTECEL

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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Leader of the people

BY CASSIDY KLEIN
Mary Novak believes in affirming the holiness of all people.

Essays

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A vote of their own

BY KATHLEEN BONNETTE
Women’s suffrage has a complicated history in the Catholic Church.

Party lines

BY MATTHEW SHADLE
Can a vote for a third party be more than throwing your vote away?

Sounding Board

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Confession isn’t therapy

BY NATHANIEL HUNTER
Confession’s best lesson is in how to make a good apology.

Expert Witness

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Against fascism

An interview with Eric Martin
Loving your enemy doesn’t mean you must let them win, says this theologian.

Home Faith

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Press pause

BY TERESA CODA
Jumping immediately into action is rarely the right move for parents.