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September 2020

Vol. 223 / No. 3

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Standing just inside the doorway of his home in a black button down shirt tucked into navy blue trousers, 11-year-old Oscar Rojas greets his teacher Gerardo Ixcoy in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala, on July 15. “Teacher Lalito only comes for a little while to teach me, but I learn a lot.” (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Politics & Society GoodNews

A teacher in Guatemala relies on his bicycle to be his transportation and his classroom. Each day he pedals among the cornfields of Santa Cruz del Quiché to give individual instruction to his sixth-grade students.

Faith Features

What kind of people will we be, not only at the end of the Covid-19 storm but throughout the journey?

At the Joyce Center, a new retreat house for the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., full length windows offer views of the reservoir below, over which the sun rises each morning (photo: Tom Rettig).
Faith Features
Jim McDermottAugust 21, 2020

These modern retreat centers are helping people grow closer to God.

A Black Lives Matter protest on Thursday, July 23, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Faith Faith and Reason
William E. LoriJuly 27, 2020

“Black Lives Matter” should resonate with all who embrace the principles of Catholic social teaching, beginning with the dignity of the human person, writes William E. Lori, the archbishop of Baltimore.

Faith Faith and Reason

The ministerial exception gives Catholics the freedom to self-govern—not an excuse for discrimination

Faith Faith in Focus
Stephanie SaldañaAugust 12, 2020

During Jerusalem’s lockdown, my family saw the Holy Land—and each other—with new eyes.

An illustration of the death of Uncle Tom from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Illustration: Etching by George Cruikshank, 1852/Alamy).
Arts & Culture Ideas

In 1862, Harriet Beecher Stowe made feeling right on race easy, righteous and comfortable, all at once. We face the same trap today.