On Wednesday, Pope Francis reflected on the theme of the Jubilee of Mercy, "Merciful like the Father," telling pilgrims that while imitating God's love can seem impossible, it's genuine effort, rather ...

I belong to a Mennonite-Catholic dialogue group which meets several times a year. Our assignment for this week’s meeting was a personal reflection on the Beatitudes, broadly, and then more ...

When St. John* XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council almost 54 years ago, he set the tone for that great gathering with these words: "Now the Bride of Christ wishes to use the medicine of mercy ...

The spiritual scorecards of the last month are, at best, distressing. If we're meek, we're doomed to suffer silently, right? Answer: No. If we're poor of spirit, we're supposed to accept life as it?

A striking element of the parable of the prodigal son, in the Gospel of Luke, is the father’s festive and loving welcome of a returning son who had squandered his inheritance in a faraway country “on ...