In October 1997, Australian National University law student Anu Singh drugged her boyfriend Joe Cinque's coffee with Rohypnol before administering him with a lethal dose of heroin. Joe Cinque's ...

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 ...

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 ...

A couple takes a selfie as Pope Francis greets newlyweds at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square Nov. 23, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Below is the text of Pope Francis’ ...

On the Shabbos immediately after Tisha B’Av, we read the haftarah of “Nachamu, Nachamu” from Yeshayahu. Each consecutive Shabbos, until Rosh Hashanah, we read another selection from Yeshayahu, in ...

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.

In 1891, the academic Hugh Fraser Stewart described the “Consolation of Philosophy” as “the most interesting example of prison literature the world has ever seen.” In “The Discarded Image,” C.S. Lewis ...

Typically, we identify with Shabbat Nachamu more than with Tisha B’Av. Most of us have lived comfortable and secure lives devoid of the attacks faced by our ancestors. When the Three Weeks and Tisha B ...