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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Consolation has disappeared from our emotional vocabulary. Here is why we stopped asking for it and what we lose when no one ...

Michael Ignatieff’s latest book, On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times, will be published next week. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, the impossible happened. A Canadian women’s hockey team lost.

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