Bad Bunny’s allusions to God, astrology and spiritism speak to young people who find themselves bored with middle-of-the-road secularism.

By calling that time or series of not great choices an “era,” you recontextualize that experience. It is something that happened at a point or during a period in time that is now, emphasis added, over.

The pope told Catholic communicators they have an important role to play “through media education, networking Catholic media and countering lies and misinformation.”

No, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is not dead. No, Pope Francis is not resigning. And no, the Vatican is not hiding a secret time machine.

When a major event hits the news cycle these days, everyone I follow seems to have a compulsive need to respond as quickly as possible. It doesn’t have to be this way.

As a young(ish), progressive Catholic, finding places where my deep love for tradition and desire for reform coexist peacefully is difficult. Unexpectedly, I found a space for this on TikTok.