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 ...

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 ...

As we continue to walk through Ordinary Time, the Church draws from the Sacred Scriptures and repeatedly gives testimony to the immense love God has for each of us. Through the sacred narrative of the ...

Dec. 8 marks the opening of the Jubilee of Mercy, a yearlong celebration of God's compassion. Pope Francis, who has made mercy the motto of his papacy, hopes that this year will be "a true moment of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The precept of mercy applies not only to individual Christians but to the church as a whole. Many ask: If God is always merciful, why is the church not the same? Or, why does the church not seem to be ...

A statistic that I have been hearing a lot is that 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage. In my case it has been 3 in 7. So, as you can imagine, I have spent a good amount of time trying to come to ...