Francis Lee is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He has served on two deployments in the South China Sea as part of Forward Deployed Naval Forces-Japan. His writing has appeared in Crisis Magazine, Catholic World Report, and Providence Magazine. The views expressed are those of the individual only and not those of the Department of Defense (DoD).
Author: Francis Lee
US Navy Forbids Its Sailors the Sacraments
UPDATE – July 9, 2020: The United States Navy has issued a new, clarified policy statement on the question of service members attending indoor religious services, which states that nothing about their guidance “should be construed to restrict attendance at places …
Reflecting on the Dignity of Work in Plague Times
The rising unemployment numbers in the United States, which are the natural consequence of an economic shutdown, brought the American middle class to its knees. Ten million (and growing) Americans were laid off in a short span of just two …
Finding the Jewel in a Mountain of Gray
Publisher’s note: I’ve maintained a consistent public editorial line over the past month that the most prudent course of action in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic is to follow the recommendations on social distancing, even to the point of being …
Why I Forfeited My Calling to Be a Military Chaplain
As a Catholic and a man raised in the institutions of the U.S. military, I have always discerned a possible vocation to the military chaplaincy. Initially, the discernment took place out of a sense of duty that all men of …
Navy Reverses Suspension of Contract Priests, But Future Remains Uncertain
On Aug. 20, Vice Adm. Yancy Lindsey, Commander, Navy Installations Command, announced that “religious services will be cut at bases where those services are readily available in the surrounding community outside the base” in order to “reduce redundancies and capture …
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