On December 18 the Vatican, with the Pope’s approval and full authority, issued a declaration called Fiducia supplicans: On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings that called for clergy to offer some form ...

In a series of recent public contributions, Cardinal Robert McElroy has called for reforming the Church’s pastoral practice related to sexual sin, on the grounds that the current approach is harmfully ...

“I form the light and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.” In your article, “The biggest of the Big Questions: Why does God allow evil?” you say there are ...

"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish ...

Readings: Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24 2 Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15 Mark 5:21-43 I killed a rabbit. Last Sunday, as I was driving a county road to early Mass. I swerved, but it had shot out from the ...