I wouldn’t be so stingy with God’s mercy, with the sacraments, with forgiveness. You see what was drilled into me in the ...

Pope St. John Paul II once told George Weigel, author of Witness to Hope, that the problem with many previous biographers was that they tried “to understand me from outside. But I can only be ...

I’ll never forget the first time I heard the words “moral relativism.” I was in college, talking with a friend who was taking an ethics class on campus. He told me the professor promoted moral ...

Pope Francis waves as he leads the ‘Regina Coeli’ from his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 23, Divine Mercy Sunday. (Credit: CNS/Reuters.) Having experienced forgiveness, ...

I'm sure none of us have failed to notice that Pope Francis has been trying to give us a different impression of our church, of the Catholic community, the people of faith following Jesus. He has ...

Divine Mercy Sunday: A sacred day when the faithful gather to reflect on forgiveness, healing and hope — a profound ...

Mercy is what holiness looks like in the lives of God’s children. I hate to admit it, but vindictiveness comes easily to me. Recently, I was online for less than two minutes before I found myself ...

Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses' hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face ...

The 40 days of this year's Lenten season started this past week, on Ash Wednesday, as faithful Christians all over the world began the spiritual commemoration of the 40 days that Jesus spent in the ...