A little before 7:15pm, the doors opened on the loggia of St. Peter’s, and Cardinal Dominique Mamberti walked out, along with two men in cassocks and surplices who held the microphone and the script. People in the crowd started to hush each other, and Cardinal Mamberti spoke: “Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum…" (“I announce to you a great joy…”) And then he paused as the crowds cheered, either because we were cheering or for dramatic effect or both. “…Habemus Papam!” (“We have a pope!”)…

We just moved to what is our 4th apartment in about 13 months. In the midst of packing up and moving across the Atlantic, we traveled for pleasure and for work, to visit family and friends, and each journey was exciting and exhausting in its own way...

Everyday, we’re given opportunities to encounter newness of life, while also being confronted by our own mortality, and the mortality of our loved ones, by virtue of being human…

This year was so transformative and fulfilling in so many ways, and I owe all to He who is never outdone in generosity…

One day, as I prayed about how to combat this greed, I heard: No more window shopping. I had no issue interpreting what this meant…

Ed Sheeran has been living rent-free in my brain for the last couple of weeks. Why?

As Christians, we have great treasure in our faith—the faith that tells us that light will in fact shine in the darkness and that, no, the darkness will not overcome it…

Maybe now more than ever, this should be a consolation to us: this world is not our home…

So then continued the train of thought: What’s the point of desiring something if it’s never going to happen?

Spoiler alert: it happened…

The cliché response to all of this would be that Heaven is our true home, and until we get there, we are simply pilgrims on a journey towards that Home. But that answer doesn’t necessarily satisfy the inner turmoil that all of this has created. As far as my earthly life is concerned, where do I belong?…