Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
In Peshawar, Pakistan, grief has settled over a city. At least thirty-five people were killed when the roof of a private school collapsed, among them dozens of children. More than fifty others were injured. It is the kind of loss that asks us to sit still, and simply hold what cannot be explained.
Across the world, in Rome, there is quieter news of recovery. Pope Leo the Fourteenth, now in his third day of hospitalization following surgery, is showing encouraging signs. His physicians report that a morning chest X-ray revealed good recovery of the lung that underwent the procedure. Progress, slow and steady, as healing tends to be.
And in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, twenty-two communication students from five Catholic universities gathered for six days to ask a question that grows more urgent by the hour — how might artificial intelligence serve people while protecting human dignity. Their program, rooted in the idea of what they called magnificent humanity, is a reminder that technology need not diminish us, if we approach it with intention and care.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
