Dear paid subscribers,

Later this week I am headed to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to lead a couple Kerygma retreats for some of their diocesan and parish ministry leaders. The last, and only, time I was in Philadelphia was in 2015 for Pope Francis’s visit and the World Meeting of Families.

In many ways, 2015 feels like a different world for me because so much of what shapes my experience of being Catholic now hadn’t happened yet.