Let’s begin this discussion by defining Mercy. Mercy is defined both biblically and in secular dictionaries as “not getting what we deserve, or another way to define mercy is God withholding ...

Theology teacher Sheila Rave asked her freshman students at Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School to define “mercy,” and discovered it was an elusive concept to many. Besides now knowing the word’s ...

Alejandro Quiroga has only been president and CEO of Children’s Mercy Kansas City since January, so he gets a pass for sounding starstruck Friday. It fell to him to open the 16th annual Big Slick ...

(RNS) Best-selling Christian author and patron saint of writers everywhere Anne Lamott didn’t set out to write a book about mercy. Lamott simply realized when she heard the word “mercy,” it had the ...

Sin — that one syllable, three letter word is an enigma. To those who don’t believe in wrong-doing, ownership and repercussions, it is easy to dismiss, to flick away this tiny flea. To those who do ...

Mathew N. Schmalz is an American Catholic historian of religion who serves as associate professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. He holds a Ph.D. in the ...