Bridge Builders In A Broken World

Pope Leo has had me thinking ever since I attended his inaugural mass last Sunday. I haven’t been able to shake him since I got home.

There were no shortage of other stories competing for my attention this week. Some of them provoked outrage (like the news of the young Jewish couple shot in Washington DC, the hundreds that still die weekly from Covid, the war raging in Ukraine, or that people continue to starve in Gaza). Other stories stirred disbelief (like the president’s commercialization of the office to advance his personal wealth, or his confrontational meeting this week with the South African president)...