Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Across the country today, every civilian aircraft was grounded as the FAA issued a nationwide ground stop, citing a communication issue affecting all air route traffic control centers. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed the action was taken for safety, though the full nature of the disruption remains unclear, leaving travelers and terminals suspended in an uneasy stillness.
From that stillness to a different kind of seeking — Pope Leo, visiting the Catholic University of Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo in Chiclayo, Peru, offered a gentle challenge to the academic world. He called on universities to foster genuine encounter between faith and reason, between religion and science, framing the search for truth not as an intellectual exercise alone, but as a form of service to our shared humanity.
And in the quieter corners of public life, a reminder that those who speak most publicly about belief carry private burdens too. Canadian apologist Wes Huff announced that his three-year-old daughter has returned home after two nights in hospital following multiple seizures, a moment that asks us all to hold tenderness alongside conviction.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
