I sensed God in the heightened awareness of my own mortality.

For inmates, incarceration is their punishment. But in the library, we focus on rehabilitation.

One day we may see one of their bylines in The New Yorker. One day these men will be released from prison.

While the church relies on volunteers in many instances, certain jobs require extensive training, which must be compensated.

The best bosses approach their work as a way to help the people under them shine, grow, learn and perform their jobs as well as possible.

Three huge bags of baby clothes! My baby is 25. Why have I saved these things?

In my unofficial survey of mothers, not a single mother mentioned gifts as part of a perfect Mother’s Day.

Stories of persistent women abound in the Gospels.

When I persist in wondering “why,” I remind myself that Jesus knows all about this kind of contemplation.

I might have come in wounded, but during Mass I am healed and made whole.