Unaware of what I was going through, a friend sent me a picture of a kintsugi bowl with the message,...

 “rest” This word reverberated in my stomach and tied it in knots. I had come to the end of another...

In Something Beautiful for God, the British Journalist Malcolm Muggeridge wrote about an exhilarating experience while filming a documentary on...

Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, in one of his essays, relays his experience in Auschwitz. A Jew was...

Tolkien’s short but poignant work "Leaf by Niggle" offers fascinating insights into the intersection of our personal and professional lives....

A few months ago, I overheard my daughter Kristen talking over the phone with her friend. She beamed as she...

If you want to know how Valentine's Day can make single women feel, watch 30 Rock. In the 13th episode...

It’s springtime in the Middle East and my 10-year-old recently planted seeds in our garden. He frequents the sun soaked...

I couldn’t stop fidgeting from joint aches as I desperately searched for padded pews at Mass that day. My body...

What if he can’t fight this...? I wondered. My closest friend’s six-week-old baby boy was diagnosed with a rare terminal...

"Hoping against hope, Abraham believed, and thus became the father of many nations." // Catechism of the Catholic Church 1819...

It was a busy day at work when the phone rang. The tone of my husband instantly spelled dreadful news....

We visited our new neighbors recently. Among other things that adorned their living room, a large card table filled with...

Soon after Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army in 1975, thousands of civilians were imprisoned. One of these was...

My mind froze trying to grapple how a friend—someone who knew me so intimately—could betray me. I often chide and...

A few years ago, a colleague at work asked, "Why does the Catholic Church spend so much money on expensive...

"Forgiveness is letting the prisoner go free, only to know the prisoner is me" is an adage that could not...