November 11, 2026

A restaurant with a diner neon light at night.

A Prayer for Those I Do Not Know

At a restaurant recently, I looked around at all the people seated nearby. And though I will never know them—or even see them again—I thought about how we are sharing a sacred moment.

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group of people walking and fleeing

Pray for Asylum Seekers

It takes grit to cross a border for a better life, irrespective of laws. Asylum seekers are God's beloved, too.
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Did the Church Make Up Purgatory?

My middle-aged daughter recently told me that there is no purgatory, that the Catholic Church made that up.
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