Pope Francis blesses a woman as he greets people who have disabilities following Mass in St. Peter’s Square on June 17, 2013. (CNS/Paul Haring) The recently released Vatican document “Dignitas ...

The Vatican has recently released what is called an instrumentum laboris for the upcoming Synod on Synodality, which is to be held in Rome this October. It is not a magisterial document but rather a ...

Why do we suffer? How does God allow it? Where is God when we hurt? These are typical questions of theodicy: the attempt to account for God's goodness in the midst of evil.

On any given Sunday, churchgoers settle into pews and listen to a sermons. A member of the clergy uses text from the Bible and figures out what it has to say about our lives today. How would you feel ...

“There’s nothing worth the wear of winning,” wrote Hilaire Belloc, “but laughter and the love of friends.” These words are personal favorites and have prompted much contemplation. I had previously ...

As a pastor, I’ve wrestled with the theological implications of my child’s disability. When my nine-year-old son Benji was an infant, we were in and out of hospitals for the first few months of his ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of agnostic is “a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable,” or “one who is not committed to ...

Contrary to popular opinion, having God on your side, as Donald Trump claimed he did after the failed attempt on his life, is no piece of cake. One would think that the companionship of the divine ...