With the challenges and trials of life, the need for God's mercy and compassion becomes a beacon of hope that guides us through our darkest times. Bible verses on mercy [BibleStudyTools] With the ...

It is a very vivid memory. My younger brother and sister wrestling on the living floor until one pinned the other down, leaned into their face, and said, “Beg for mercy!” I remember a parishioner ...

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 ...

Should Christians who uphold the Bible as the word of God have to choose between love of God and love of the queer people in their lives? While the answer may seem obvious to most readers of this ...

“It is not easy to entrust oneself to God’s mercy, because it is an abyss beyond our comprehension. But we must! ... ‘Oh, I am a great sinner!’ ‘All the better! Go to Jesus: He likes you to tell him ...

If the most essential frame for understanding Pope Francis is his pastoral sensibility, and it is, that frame also shapes both the contours and the content of his role as teacher. This role as teacher ...

I remember as a child watching the Super Bowl on television with my grandfather. The camera panned the crowd, and we saw a man with a poster reading “John 3:16.” When we looked up the passage, we read ...

Speaking to participants of the first World Congress on Divine Mercy who were at a Mass for the third anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II today, the Holy Father explained that the mercy of ...

Any serious reader of the Bible soon discovers an uncomfortable reality: the fullness of God's truth is often held in tension. We see this in Scripture and in creation.