Do We Remember How to Be Human to One Another?

Drop your phone and look at the person in front of you. Is this the most radical idea yet?

“A very widespread ailment of our time is the fatigue of living: reality seems to us to be too complex, burdensome, difficult to face,” said Pope Leo XIV during a recent audience in Saint Peter’s Square. Maybe it’s because this pope was born in the United States, but nearly every time I hear him speak (sometimes in English and with a Midwestern cadence!), I assume that he is talking to his fellow Americans. He gets us — he diagnosed us perfectly. And not a moment too soon, because our ailment is killing us. Pope Leo may just save our lives before he saves our souls.