November 2025
VOL. 90, NO. 11
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Features
The world is our cloister
St. Columba’s Inverness takes a new approach to building a contemplative community.
Mercy over judgment
Annulments are nothing new, yet misunderstandings about the process still challenge Catholics today.
Columns
THE EXAMINED LIFE
We don’t have to be a gun
BY REBECCA BRATTEN WEISS
Humans have choices about the things we make and how we use them.
CULTURE IN CONTEXT
The people’s airwaves
BY DANNY DUNCAN COLLUM
Cutting public broadcast funding unravels a vision that once prioritized people over profit.
SALT & LIGHT
An uneven trade
BY MEGHAN J. CLARK
Catholic social teaching offers a framework for just trade—one that prioritizes workers over economic gain.
MARGIN NOTES
Our loss
BY KEVIN CLARKE
U.S. population decline is a self-inflicted wound.
TESTAMENTS
Unfinished business
BY ALICE CAMILLE
Praying for the dead is one way Catholics open themselves to being changed by the past.
GLAD YOU ASKED
What is a scapular?
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
Empowered to serve
BY CASSIDY KLEIN
Led by the values of her Catholic faith, Jeanné Lewis organizes faith leaders to create a more equitable country.
Essays
Story of a soul
BY DANI JIMÉNEZ
Believing in ourselves and our identities brings us closer into God’s unconditional love.
Repair work
BY BRITTANY KOTELES
Land justice gives Catholics the opportunity to make amends for the church’s past sins.
Sounding Board
Last things
BY ED SIMON
The idea of apocalypse is ubiquitous in contemporary culture. But what do Catholics actually believe about it?
Expert Witness
A crumbling wall
An interview with Stephen F. Schneck
Separation of church and state isn’t just a modern American idea. It’s part of Catholic social teaching.
Home Faith
On love
BY SIMEIQI HE
Marriage brings us to a deep communion with the world.
