Pope Francis used the example of several Catholic saints to explain the concept of spiritual consolation during his weekly audience on Wednesday. “What is spiritual consolation?” he said Nov. 23. “It ...

Philosophy & Rhetoric, Vol. 53, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: IN THE MIDST OF COVID-19 (2020), pp. 306-311 (6 pages) https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0306 • https ...

With a call to trust that Jesus is the one who dries the tears of those who suffer, Pope Leo XIV celebrated the prayer vigil for the Jubilee of Consolation in St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday, Sept. 15.

People worked hard long before there was a thing called the “work ethic,” much less a “Protestant work ethic.” The phrase itself emerged early in the twentieth century and has since congealed into a ...

The Seventeenth day of the Hebrew month of Tamuz marks the beginning of the Three Weeks of Mourning that culminate on the 9 th day of the Hebrew month of Av. During this time, Jewish people refrain ...

From Cicero to El Greco, Marx to Mahler, a study of solace through the ages offers lessons from the broken When the world is in crisis, where should we look for comfort? Given humanity’s dwindling ...

The spiritual practice of discernment, of seeing where God is at work in one's life and what God is calling one to do, includes examining what brings a sense of consolation and spurs one to do good, ...