A willingness to recognize the holiness of the ordinary might be the highest ideal of the solitary life.

'The root of Spiritism...is the diseased moral condition of the age,' one Catholic author wrote.

There is no better way to pray than like Mary, who opened her heart to God with humility and trust, Pope Francis said.

This is the prayer: Accept things as they are. It was all meant to be.

Whatever comes next may be ugly. We all know this. But for reasons I can hardly explain, I felt buoyed up the morning after the election.

The only reaction that matters right now for most of us is spiritual. We need patience. We need to let the votes be counted.