The suicides of CNN’s Anthony Bourdain and fashion designer Kate Spade illustrate an all-to-common tragedy – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week that nearly 45,000 people ...

(RNS) — When you hear the blasts of the shofar, what goes through your mind and through your soul? The sages say the blasts of the shofar should remind you of someone weeping. That is why the Talmud ...

Pope Francis said on Saturday that "we must ask for the grace to cry" with Our Lady for the lives destroyed by the Ukraine war and the other miseries of our time, like "the children discarded before ...

It does not matter how many times I sit at a hospital bedside, or at a house of mourning, or with congregants who are dealing with a tragedy, or at the very least, a crushing disappointment. Or, for ...

”My own sadness with what appears to be an obsession with human sexuality is the fact that the world is hurting, the world is hungry, the world is diseased, the world is hagridden by corruption and ...

America’s gun fetish sickness has struck again, this time in Georgia, a state which is among the most lax in firearm regulations as a school slaughter destroys more families and another community in ...

‘In the eyes of our brothers and sisters, victims of the horrors of war, we read the profound and pressing need for a life marked by dignity, peace and love,’ the Holy Father said on Easter Saturday.