Sometimes we can find joy just by being open to seeing it around us. Batavia is filled with joy. I was driving through town and noticed an adult woman making a snowman. Unlike many of the other ...

I’m not generally known as a happy person. I don’t think that’s because I’m unhappy, exactly, or because I’m a cynic or a naysayer, even though I have my moments. No, I think it’s because I’m allergic ...

What examples of comparison-free joy have influenced your life? How does remembering your place in the body of Christ free you from the need to compare yourself to others?

Pope Francis on Wednesday spoke during his last general audience before Christmas on the importance of approaching the coming of Christ with “joy” and “amazement,” noting that the first Nativity scene ...