Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
But my immediate concern is not to revisit the entire debate over capital punishment. I recognize that many people, including people of sincere faith, disagree with my position. My concern is the proposal to livestream an execution, transforming the deliberate taking of a human life into something the public is invited to watch.
Artificial intelligence is expanding what we can do faster than we can agree on what we should do. But before we build the guardrails, we need to ask what they are protecting. The answer begins not with technology, but with human dignity, responsibility, and love.
Emmanuel Macron skipped Pope Leo XIV’s enormous Mass in Paris, then changed his schedule to attend Mass in Metz. The explanation reveals how much more complicated French laïcité is than “separation of church and state.”
For many children, the death of an animal is their first encounter with grief. What the adults around them say, and how we say it, matters.
We stand on a threshold between those who entrusted this nation to us and those who will one day receive it from our hands. The question before us is not simply what kind of nation we have inherited. The deeper question is what kind of ancestors we are willing to become.
At its core, performative religion undermines faith’s true purpose, to transform.
To understand what Bishop Flunder was pointing toward, we must begin with a truth the Church has long professed, even if we have not always lived it fully: God is not finished speaking.
This is not simply a political moment or a cultural moment; it is a profoundly moral one, and people of faith are being asked, gently but insistently, to respond.
That truth compels us to speak plainly today as we continue to grieve the heinous shooting in Minneapolis and the death of Renee Nicole Good. When violence is carried out, especially by agents of authority, it demands more than prayers alone. It demands truth, accountability, and a sober reckoning with how power is exercised in our common life.
"God’s strength does not come from violence, anger, and domination. God’s power comes from love. Christ is the king who reigns from a cross, not because he is powerless, but because he is love. And love chooses solidarity. Love chooses presence. Love chooses forgiveness even when forgiveness is undeserved. Love remembers us."