Jesus is worth everything, and there is a cost to following him. So the question for the reader becomes “How much is Jesus ...

Three major events are converging on Feb. 11 this year: the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the World Day of the Sick, and the 40th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s apostolic letter Salvifici Doloris ...

Question: Death is the inevitable for all of us. How does God choose who suffers and who dies quickly? So many kind, wonderful, loving people suffer agonizing deaths, while others not so kind and ...

I was visiting a historic church some years ago and picked up a short history of the congregation. I learned that its first sanctuary had burned to the ground on December 3, 1903. “No doubt, to train ...

New research by Kurt Gray (assistant professor of psychology, University of Maryland) and colleagues indicates that suffering plays an important role in belief in God. In one study, participants read ...

“Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. . . . And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called ...

A new study by the Pew Research Center found that few Americans blame God for suffering in the world. Instead, Americans are more likely to blame suffering on random chance, the actions of others, or ...

When Ash Wednesday arrived in 2009, I couldn't muster the courage to go to church. The thought of having one of our pastors make the sign of the cross on my forehead and say, "You are dust and to dust ...

As we go to press, vacationers are fleeing the Caribbean as Hurricane Dean rushes toward landfall. In Peru, there was no warning and no place to flee. A 7.9 intensity earthquake there killed 700 ...

I recently found myself asking this same question, but it wasn’t because of the coronavirus. My sister was diagnosed with cancer seven months ago. Six months later, she passed away. Her illness and ...