If you're anything like me, you've had a point where you struggled to find a new Catholic Church. When I moved to a new city for the first time in years, I wasn't just asking, "Where do I go?" But a deeper question of, "What am I even looking for?" There's a balance between hoping to find the "perfect" place and knowing when you've found a parish that's right. The framework here is meant to tease out what you're looking for in a Church and to guide you in finding a good Church community. This...

For a church accused of moving at a glacial pace, Pope Leo XIV just beat Silicon Valley, Washington, and the United Nations to the most urgent moral question of our time. Magnifica Humanitas is not a critique of AI. It is a critique of humanity's view of ourselves. Because Pope Leo isn’t asking the world to consider simple questions of whether or not this new technology should be regulated, but, “Does AI make human life on earth ‘more human’ in every aspect of that life? Does it make it...

A Night Centered on Welcoming the Stranger There’s always been a tendency in Christianity to isolate from the world. We see it even in the earliest days of the Church, when Peter himself struggled to reach beyond his familiar circle until Paul called him out for refusing to eat with Gentiles (cf. Galatians 2). What makes Christianity so groundbreaking is how it pushes against our human tendency to protect and withdraw. Throughout the scriptures, God challenges us to go beyond our comfort zone...