With the challenges and trials of life, the need for God's mercy and compassion becomes a beacon of hope that guides us through our darkest times. These divine qualities reflect God's willingness to ...

The 40 days of this year's Lenten season started this past week, on Ash Wednesday, as faithful Christians all over the world began the spiritual commemoration of the 40 days that Jesus spent in the ...

Compassion matters. I officiated at a funeral recently for a family that I was not familiar with. As I collected the details about their loved one’s life story, we also collected the music they wished ...

The so-called parable of the talents in the Gospel of Matthew has perhaps become too familiar. One might read this passage and arrive at the rushed conclusion to avoid laziness and multiply the gifts ...

On Sept. 30, 2019 — the Memorial of St. Jerome, Bishop and Doctor of the Church — Pope Francis established that “the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time is to be devoted to the celebration, study and ...

Psalm 103:10&13-14 — “He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities … As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him. For He knows ...

There’s an old story about a boy who, having grown up at the edge of a wide river, spent his childhood learning to build rafts. When the boy became a man, he cut down some trees, tied them together ...

The prophet’s lesson is also ours: We must recover compassion for neighbor and enemy alike, or our words will be hollow. Political discourse today is increasingly marked more by bitter conflict than ...

A Ramadan lantern, traditional symbol of the holiday. Photo via Wikimedia Commons In a rare confluence of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious calendars, we are heading into a time when all the ...

Many who read that joke probably chuckled as I did. But then it occurred to me that there is a sense in which Frederich Nietzsche was right. Nietzsche was a 19th century German philosopher who penned ...