This weekend, my 10-year-old godson wrote a prayer.

Hundreds of years later, she inspires more questions than nearly any saint in history.

During this time of social distancing, as we wear masks and stay away from people we love, it’s important to remember that we are doing this because life matters. Because love matters.

Do you see faces in food? It happens to me all the time.

St. Rita is patron of several things, including parenthood and marriage difficulties, but what she’s best known for—and perhaps most needed for today—is impossible causes.

I started thinking about unexpected questions that only seem to come up when you’ve been living under stay-at-home orders for weeks on end.

Father Doyle fields questions about the “strange wording” in the “Hail, Holy Queen” prayer and who created COVID-19.

Heartbreaking as this experience is for the Class of 2020—and it is—I also find the Class of 2020 intriguing and inspiring.

My hats go off to all graduates of all grades everywhere. In surviving this, you have gained wisdom, skill sets, patience and appreciation that will guide you everywhere you go.

As we mark the centenary of the birth of Karol Wojtyla, who became St. John Paul II, it caused me to reflect on moments of my life that intersected with the man who was pope for a great chunk of my life and career in Catholic journalism.