The value of freedom can be assessed in various ways and tends to increase when it is threatened or becomes scarce.

When we learn that “happiness can’t be taken by the world because it wasn’t given by the world,” we can laugh at the vanities and absurdities that might otherwise drive us to despair. And we can ...

Against such a backdrop of government-sponsored cruelty, corruption and shameless profiteering at taxpayer expense, what, to ...

Read the history behind Andrés González’s hymn “Placentero nos es trabajar” — now included in the new hymnbook as “Oh, How ...

That s not a message most graduates will hear in commencement speeches this year But maybe it s the one they most need ...

Do you remember the movie “The Ten Commandments?” I was in high school when I first watched it. Since then, I have watched it ...

Odisha Law Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan confirmed that three people lost their lives due to suffocation during a massive ...

In the one-page message to his “brothers in the priesthood,” Pope Leo invited them to renew the “yes” they said to God and to ...

The secret to a happier life might not be what you own, but who you believe in. New research published in Psychological ...

It explains that the soul, being a part of God, naturally yearns for divine love, and only through devotion, free from desires and expectations, can one achieve true and lasting happiness.

Accordingly, God finds us not in the pursuit of happiness but in the shambles of our failure. There is no need to manufacture shame or sadness to accomplish this vision.

Happiness, in other words, signified a state of alignment — with virtue, with nature, with God. By the time of the Enlightenment, ... Getting what you want in life — that’s happiness, bro.