Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

‘Out of Christian charity,’ priests bury migrants who died in Darien jungle

View of a pantheon built by the Red Cross to bury the bodies of irregular migrants at the Municipal Cemetery of El Real de Santa Maria, Darien Province, Panama, on March 8, 2023, on the eve of its delivery to Panamanian authorities. The Red Cross constructed the hundred niches pantheon to bury the bodies of […]

Save the date, parlor games, and the art of the meal…

The octave is one of my favorite liturgical expressions of reality as the Church understands it. As most of you know, I am somewhat obsessed with the idea of time — how we conceive of the idea, how we measure it, and how we relate to a God who came “in time,” exists “out of […]

The U.S. military has been pushing DEI and LGBTQ policies. So how is recruiting going?

Try to imagine an America in which families that have, for generations, urged their children to serve in the armed services stopped doing precisely that. Clearly, economic issues — think slow-rising salaries, housing costs for military families, day-care costs and more — are affecting recruiting. You can read all about that in this report by […]

‘The Rise of WOMEN Altar Servers

The rise of women roles at the altar started long before Pope Francis, with key decisions made by Pope St. John Paul II and the late Pope Benedict XVI. However, Pope Francis took these inroads and codified radical changes. This is just the latest attempt to weaken the Church’s tradition — and to blur the […]