Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Ryan Realbuto, 23-year-old Catholic volunteer killed in robbery on way home from Adoration in DC, remembered as ‘an old soul’…

Volunteering to help people was a big part of who Ryan Realbuto was. He scrubbed dishes in a soup kitchen, did yard work at a foster home, repainted the chapel at a home for women, and helped high-school kids figure out their future jobs. He was so generous, his mother believes, on the night of Jan. 18, while walking home from a Holy Hour and social event at a Catholic church in Washington…