Virgin Mary Statue Torn Down in 1918 Rises Again in Prague
June 5, 2020
More than a century after its destruction, a historic statue of the Virgin Mary was returned to Prague's Old Town...
Jorge I. Dominguez-Lopez
One Hundred Thousand Deaths … and Then One More
June 3, 2020
Last week, the tally of coronavirus deaths in the U.S. reached 100,000. It is almost impossible to grasp the number...
We Are All Responsible Now
May 27, 2020
In the midst of this dark spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has already killed more than 95,000 Americans and...
The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery
May 20, 2020
On a rainy afternoon in July 2009, the police department in Long Branch, New Jersey, received a call from a...
Reading in the Times of Pandemic
May 13, 2020
During this painful spring, we have been unexpectedly forced to stay indoors. We have been dealing with the shelter-in-place spring...
Father Jorge Ortiz-Garay Laid to Rest in Mexico
May 8, 2020
While his parents and siblings sang in Spanish the words of St. Paul — “Where, O death, is your victory?...
Back to the Future of the Pandemic
May 6, 2020
There is nothing older than yesterday’s newspapers — we know pretty much all that was said, and there is not...
‘Your Rod and Your Staff Give Me Courage’
April 29, 2020
There is a poem by Argentinian poet Jorge Luis Borges that was one of my favorites since my youth. It...
Grieving Family of Father Jorge Ortiz-Garay, Brooklyn Priest Who Died of COVID-19, Say They Can’t Get His Body Home to Mexico
April 24, 2020
“If not for our faith, I don’t know how we could have been able to go through the last weeks,”...
Then They Came for Us
April 22, 2020
In August 2018, a case of African porcine fever was reported in China. One year later, 40% of the pigs...