We were both moved by how many people around us are suffering in the current climate, so we sat down to judge what's going on, and drafted something to share with everyone. Writing down this judgment together helped us remember that simply when working on...
War is inevitably catastrophic. The ensuing humanitarian crisis, often followed by starvation and epidemics, with almost overwhelming destruction and loss, inevitably cause immense human suffering which simply break the human heart. When we speak about he...
Dear Brothers and Sisters, In this Jubilee year we begin Lent by listening together once again to the proclamation which, through the mouth of the Apostle Paul, fills this special time with hope: “God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, n...
I’ve had the charism of hospitality since I was a young girl. I inherited it from both sides of my family. I was throwing dinner parties like crazy, just like my dad, by the time I was 18. I’ve had thousands of personal encounters with friends and the fri...
It has been a few months since I joined with thirty or so of Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete’s friends in a “pilgrimage” of sorts to San Juan, Puerto Rico where he was born and grew up. The pilgrimage was organized by the Albacete Forum which, for nine years, has ...