You don’t need to have met someone to grieve for them. But when a pope dies, how do we tell the difference between grief and ...

Grieving the loss of a loved one is a painful but normal part of the human experience. While many often cite Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ Five Stages of Grief as one common way to understand the process ...

The physical effects of grief had finally caught up with me. Over the next few years, these physical health issues came in waves—sometimes a headache so sharp I had to lie down, other times a ...

Paul Rand: But what if the way we feel grief and the actual biological experience are more connected than we think? Mary-Frances O’Connor: In scientific research, we can see the physiological response ...

Jessica Correnti, author of The ABCs of Grief, shares 10 recent books that help children cope with the loss of someone ...

In the case of Pope Francis, this may be this may be closer to spiritual longing rather than actual grief. And whether or not we believe in a god, and however we want to describe it, longing of ...

For those who knew Pope Francis personally, the loss will be profound and lasting. For the rest of us, we are witnesses to ...