In the club period, Lilavati asks a question based on an anti-Catholic stereotype Saul told her about confession. Mike has his own question ...

Between answering barrages of attacks against her faith and being asked to carry heavy secrets she can’t reveal to her friends, Iimi feels o...

So, we had a third attack on a statue of St. Junipero Serra. This time in my own  diocese . As these attacks continue, I see an emerging ten...

The Pharisee and the Publican . James Tissot (1894) This will probably be a controversial article, but I think it needs to be said, lest we ...

When Our Lord was teaching here on Earth, two of the things He made clear were: The salvation of sinners was not unobtainable as they feared...

Catholic factions on social media bears unfortunate witness to the fact that we’re little different than the ones we’re supposed to bear wit...

Most people, when you mention Jonah, think of the story of Jonah and the whale. That is indeed part of the story. But I don’t think it is t...

Jeremiah prophesying to Israel I’ve been working my way through the Book of Jeremiah and reflecting on his prophecies. God called on him to...

(The Last Judgment—Fra Angelico) Mercy has been the theme of Pope Francis’ pontificate, and it has been badly misunderstood. Many people se...

Pope Francis recently called for Christians who did wrong to people with same sex attraction to seek forgiveness. This was widely misreprese...

Reading the Old Testament—the history and the prophets—we see a fascinating picture of God’s love and man’s failure to respond. God cares f...

( The Return of the Prodigal Son , James Tissot) The Bull Misericordiae Vultus,  announcing a jubilee beginning with Advent 2015, has been ...

Knowledge about God without an awareness of our misery produces vanity. Knowledge of our misery without an awareness of God produces despai...

I came across a new aspect to the same old outrage against the Church. In response to a special outreach of mercy, the Archbishop of Turin ...

In dealing with the concepts of the love of God and the justice of God, it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture. It’s easy to get so caug...