In Orlando, Florida, in 2012, a wife and husband cultivated a healthy vegetable garden in their front yard. But the city of Orlando fined and prohibited them from doing so “because of the expectation that we live in a society...
A Catholic case against lawns
Catholic social teaching offers a framework for rethinking the use of outdoor space to nurture the shared flourishing of all creation.
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March 2026
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE
Moral code
Video games are unexpectedly full of moral decisions.
BY RILEY MACLEOD
Biased bots
The AI explosion amplifies existing biases in the church.
BY HEIDI SCHLUMPF
Our Lady of Revolutions
Mary challenges power and embodies resistance, says this theologian and writer.
AN INTERVIEW WITH KAT ARMAS
Look to the Luddites
As tech advances threaten labor justice, we might just need another Luddite movement.
BY LEVI CHECKETTS
Grounded in creation
Cultivate a spirituality rooted in wonder at creation’s abundance.
BY KATHY COFFEY
“American Catholics come from a pilgrim, immigrant church that has helped forge this great nation. We forget that to our ecclesial and national peril.”
Kevin Clarke
