In one sense, priests are no different from other people. They feel the need to step away from the typical routine for a few days to refresh and recharge. There’s always the beach, the woods, the big city.

In one sense, priests are no different from other people. They feel the need to step away from the typical routine for a few days to refresh and recharge. There’s always the beach, the woods, the big city.
On the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio, standing at the pulpit of the town’s lone Catholic church, reminded the community that faith and unity are essential to move forward.
It has been 10 months since a lone gunman with a high-powered weapon entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde and took the lives of 19 children and two teachers, and things are far from normal.
Celebrating a Mass for the Uvalde, Texas community on the first night after the Robb Elementary School shooting, Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller called the children in attendance to the front of the church to speak with them directly, but didn’t receive any feedback.