What Do Physicians Think About Patients' Spiritual Suffering? Patients often experience spiritual suffering, which may complicate their physical suffering at the end of life. This study explores ...

When advice like “just pray more” is given as dismissal rather than comfort, spiritual care turns into an emotional bypass.

Most people assume the deepest wounds after catastrophe are emotional. Certainly many are. But some wounds reach deeper than ...

When Brittany Maynard became the youthful face of the right-to-die movement, she brought to the public table several fierce debates. Some people wouldn't call Maynard's death a "suicide" because, ...

Readings: Job 7:1-4, 6-7 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23 Mark 1:29-39 Here is a well-written story that I do not like. I do not like it because it is about suffering. Most people know the actor Patrick ...

In 1998 Philip Zaleski began editing an anthology of essays that have been published each year under the broad and perhaps presumptuous title “The Best Spiritual Writing.” Such superlatives ...

Pope John Paul II met with 13,000 pilgrims in St. Peter's Square during his general audience June 2. He offered his reflections on Psalm 41, which Jesus quoted during the Last Supper when he was about ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) When Brittany Maynard became the youthful face of the right-to-die movement, she brought to the public table several fierce debates. Some people wouldn’t call Maynard’s death a ...