Five hundred years after that cannonball blast, we honor Ignatius Loyola, as a visionary and saint on his feast day, July 31.

This is what I hope the future conversation around mental health in sports looks like.

Many Catholics are now devastated to lose access to a treasured rite that has nourished their spiritual lives for decades.

I pray for unity in the church. I pray also for the consolation of fellow Catholics, who may now be denied that portion of the church’s tradition that has nourished their faith, as it once did mine.

If the Latin Mass that I attend currently were to cease, I would be back to square one for determining which aspects of myself I am willing to sacrifice on Sunday.

The confrontational stranger who reminded me of the wages of sin probably had my best interest at heart.