Discernment can be defined as the ability to understand obscurity. If you are discerning, it means that you’re a strong judge of other people’s character. Influencer Cassie Blanko believes that ...

I always tell my child that being a parent does not come with a how-to user manual, even though it would have been nice to reference standard operating procedures (SOPs) just once—more specifically, ...

After teaching college for nearly three decades, I’m at the point where I can boil down into a few words some of the most important qualities I see missing in too many students that, if developed and ...

Pope Francis has launched a new catechesis series on spiritual discernment. The pope announced on Aug. 31 that he will provide reflections in his upcoming Wednesday general audiences on the “demanding ...

In ancient Greece, the highest form of intelligence wasn't knowledge. It was phronesis: practical wisdom. The kind of judgment that governs how we navigate tradeoffs, make decisions under uncertainty ...

Judge Webster Brewer added a practical hands-on angle to a 1980s Indiana effort to reserve prison cells for the worst criminal offenders. Brewer, who died this month, was a Marion County Superior ...

A long-standing theme in the Church’s spiritual tradition, “discernment” has been given even greater prominence since the beginning of Pope Francis’ pontificate, that is, in the last ten years. It is ...