Emotions both remit and require energy. Positive, growth-promoting emotions such as excitement, hope, and humility optimize happiness, performance and well-being. Negative, survival-based emotions include anger, frustration, and fear.

Fertility tracking apps have become incredibly popular, but most have secular goals, and many create a risk of exposing your information. Enter PeakDay, created by the Fertility Science Institute of the Couple to Couple League. The Catholic fertility and period-tracking app is designed as a safe, values-driven alternative to apps that often promote birth control, abortion, and other controversial agendas.

This Lent, we walked with Jesus to Calvary. Now, at the foot of the Cross on Good Friday, we ask: "How well did you bear your crosses and trials this Lent?"

Good Friday highlights a tragic event in which Jesus suffered a cruel and unjust death as He sacrificed Himself for the sins of humanity. And yet, because we know the purpose behind this great sacrifice and the joy to come just three days later, we can truly see it as a “good” day.

Holy Week is the holiest week of the year, in which we enter into the greatest mysteries of our faith: Jesus' Institution of the Eucharist, His Passion, Death, and Resurrection. This reflection invites us to be present with Jesus at each of these events — Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday — simply to be with Him and to immerse ourselves ever more deeply in these sacred mysteries.

For Catholic women in business, vocation rarely unfolds in straight lines. We are often discerning multiple callings at once: building enterprises, stewarding influence, teaching, researching, mentoring, serving. In this layered life, discernment can feel paralyzing: What if I move too soon? What if I wait too long? What if I say yes and fail?