We do not anticipate young mothers dying at a moment devoted to birth, and yet we know it happens. We know about death, and yet we are caught unawares by it.

Fordham University's student graduation speaker was motivated by her faith to call for “zero emissions, zero excuses and zero time to waste.”

Like many people raised in an abusive environment, I also married a man who treated me with the disrespect and violence that I had been accustomed to.

You need to find laughs wherever you can; God is in laughter.

Is all of this revealed horror a kind of Pentecost for us? If so, God, please help us live through it.

I am middle-aged, happily married and the father of six children. Thankfully, the monastic guest program at Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in South Carolina, is open to all.