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Father Eric J. Banecker By Father Eric J. Banecker • Posted March 12, 2021 The great unraveling. The great reset. The era of change. These and similar sentiments have been attached to the age we are currently living through. Calling it the “age of covid” is not quite right, of course. While the coronavirus is obviously the central news story of our time, it is actually just an accelerant – fuel for the fire, so to speak – of the rapid societal changes that have been underway for quite some time now. In just the past few weeks, I have heard of several families selling their homes an...

Father Eric J. Banecker By Father Eric J. Banecker • Posted January 15, 2021 Arequipa, Peru is a fascinating place. In the summer I spent there studying Spanish in 2014, I grew to love its friendly people, its delicious local dishes like rocotto relleno, and the city’s beautiful mix of influences from indigenous culture and Spanish missionaries, all with many amenities of modern life. It has its quirks too. Driving around was the kind of event that brought one face-to-face with mortality. There weren’t really any stop signs that I can recall. There were very few traffic lights. And as...

Father Eric J. Banecker As we approach the conclusion of the annus horribilis, this year of our discontent, many people are literally breaking down, either physically or emotionally, unable to handle the terrible diseases that have been unleashed. I say “diseases” because, while so much of our attention is rightly directly to COVID-19, it should become obvious that many other diseases have wounded our bodies and our body politic this year. A sense of malaise and meaninglessness, anger and resentment, a failure to trust each other: all of these and more have consumed us, stressed us out, ...