Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
In France, the Church is turning toward a question that many societies are quietly asking: what do we do when meaning runs dry. The Archbishop of Tours is calling for renewed democratic dialogue, and for something rarer still — a public space where spiritual questions are welcome at the table, not turned away at the door.
That same hunger for meaning, tested in the most devastating way, is at the heart of Andy and Kate Grosmaire's story. After losing their daughter to violence, they chose to face her killer — not to erase accountability, but to seek something deeper than punishment. Sustained by faith and a belief in redemption, they found that healing and justice need not be strangers to one another.
And in London, Cardinal Koovakad stood before Parliament on Ahimsa Day to remind us that nonviolence is not passivity — it is, as he put it, a courageous commitment to justice. Speaking alongside the Jain community, he called on religious traditions to become bridges in a world that keeps building walls.
Three voices, one underlying question: how do we hold one another with more care. That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
