The meaning of ‘happiness’ was in flux in Shakespeare’s England, and his plays capture many senses of the word.

Dr. Sergio Alfieri said that the pope "died without suffering, at home.'' The doctor found the pontiff with his eyes open and ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Life, at its core, is a paradox. We build as if everything will last forever—and lose as if it never did. We dream big, fall ...

Time perception changes with age due to familiar experiences becoming routine. Salient life events become less frequent as ...

Contemplation of vast expanses of time confronts us with the relative brevity of our own lives. The realization of our life's ...

This is why I said earlier that these are pages born “from the thought and the affection” of Cardinal Scola: not only from thought, but also from the emotional dimension, which is the one to which ...

Pope Francis reflected on old age and the "consoling certainty" of death more than two months before he died at the age of 88 ...