While the coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions have interrupted people's lives and brought suffering on a global scale, every individual -- including the pope -- has or will experience traumatic interruptions in their lives, Pope Francis said in a new book.
"Illness, the failure
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about two friends dealing with cancer in this week’s Taking Note column. Both are dealing with their illness during the coronavirus pandemic. One friend, she writes, “was healed by doctors and faith, I have no doubt. He had
Twenty-twenty has been a never-ending storm that can fray even the calmest of nerves. In addition to the COVID-19 pandemic and racial tensions throughout the country, the upcoming presidential election continues to divide the country even further, and Tropical Storm Laura is
Renée Darline Roden writes about a recent painful experience of recovery from a torn hip labrum injury. She writes, “Health can be regained even when our bodies deviate from the ‘norm.’ In fact, there is no norm. When we heal, we do
There is rarely anything uplifting about young death. Young death is a tragedy, a heartbreaking result of our fallen world, and God our Father only knows the reasons behind it. Over this year’s Christmas holiday, young death most unfortunately visited a family
Question: Why do the Gospels omit so much of Jesus’ life? It would have been edifying to see how he lived as a child, teenager and adult. As a parent I would love to show my daughter, “See, this is how Jesus
As Catholics we hear quite a bit about the love of God. We are reminded through the Mass Readings that God is always with us and we need not worry or be afraid. Sometimes, however, when we get back to those challenges
When the world looked at the face of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, it saw pure, simple joy. Then, in 2007, 10 years after Blessed Teresa’s death, a collection of her private letters was published. Suddenly, the joy that the tiny sister from