The only reaction that matters right now for most of us is spiritual. We need patience. We need to let the votes be counted.

Got election anxiety? There’s a patron saint for that.

During my first half-decade as a priest, I buried a total of three people. In the last two years here in Belize, that number is well over a hundred—and it has reminded me of love’s eternalness.

All Souls is not just a remembrance of those we have lost, whether to death or to time. All Souls is a remembrance that beyond this world, there is more to come.

For those who have lost loved ones to Covid-19, celebrations will not be the same this year. But they will still remember the souls who have passed on to new life.

Father Bryan Massingale: As Black Catholics, we rejoice because we are now visible as never before. We are seen. We matter.