September 2020

VOL. 85, NO. 9

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Features

What secular city?

BY PETER FEUERHERD

Lives of faith in the Big Apple are–and always have been–dynamic.

This is my church

BY JESSICA MESMAN

Many rural parishes face similar challenges, but they find different ways to stay vibrant.

Columns

THE EXAMINED LIFE

Turn the page

BY EMILY SANNA
What books have built your literary and theological worldview?

CULTURE IN CONTEXT

Bludgeons or balms

BY PAMELA HILL NETTLETON
Media can act to challenge stereotypes or reinforce the status quo.

SALT & LIGHT

Art work

BY FATHER BRYAN MASSINGALE
Predominantly white sacred images obscure and denigrate the sacredness of nonwhite lives and bodies.

MARGIN NOTES

A small world after all

BY KEVIN CLARKE
If we don’t beat COVID-19 everywhere, we can’t beat it anywhere.

TESTAMENTS

Sacred stories

BY ALICE CAMILLE
The stories important to us direct us to act, choose, and move through the seasons.

GLAD YOU ASKED

Why do bishops wear a hat and carry a stick?

BY JOHN GROSSO

Departments

Editors’ Note
You May Be Right (Letters to the Editor)
Signs of the Times (News)
Catholic Tastes (Humor)
Reviews
Eye of the Beholder (Art meditation)

Expert Witness

The storyteller

an interview with Louise Erdrich

Mining her family’s myths and Native American heritage, novelist Louise Erdrich gives voice to stories from the margins.

Essays

God matters

BY NICK RIPATRAZONE
Today’s Catholic writers reveal that God is in all things, from the sacred to the mundane.

A baptized mind

BY DAVID RUSSELL MOSLEY
In his children’s fiction, C.S. Lewis communicates Christian truth through story.

Sounding Board

Fast for justice

BY STEPHANIE CLARY
Can one person’s dietary decisions affect the common good?

In Person

A healer’s prayer

BY ROSIE MCCARTY
How one doctor’s faith keeps her going, even in the midst of pandemic.

Home Faith

By faith alone

BY MATT PAOLELLI

The faith of a child has the power to bring parents closer to God.