"When these misfortunes happen to us, we cannot forget that the father loves us."

To reflect upon Cornelia’s life today is inevitably to lament it.

We love our definitions, our categories and our ability to transform most anything in the world into an equation.

"You Russians have in your blood, in your humanistic and religious tradition" an understanding of love, Francis said to Russian cosmonauts.

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

Francis is known for his out-of-the-blue calls. But this one has been in the Earth-to-space pipeline for a while.