Religious types will try to protect God, saying God is good; and if we humans suffer, it is primarily the outcome of our wrong choices. God wishes us to experience joy and not misery. God is perfect ...
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 ...
Q: I think I learn about life and spiritual well-being as I enjoy reading your articles in our local newspaper. I just read your "Honoring the Dead" piece and once again, I was struck by the human ...
When we look around the world and see poverty, suffering and war it begs the question “how in the world can a good and loving God allow this to happened?” We may ask this same question when we ...
Speculating about the purpose of suffering is dangerous. Providing someone with too quick a response about its meaning does not respect the trauma of violence, especially violence suffered by the ...
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'Show Me Your Glory' blends supernatural encounters, theology to address human suffering
In the new documentary “Show Me Your Glory,” Eric and Kameron Swithin confront one of humanity’s oldest and most painful questions head-on: If God is good, why is there so much suffering in the world?
As an increasingly secularized and materialistic society encourages people to eschew suffering, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the redemptive and salvific ...
Editor’s note: This book review originally appeared in America on March 15, 1975. Jürgen Moltmann died on June 3, 2024, at the age of 98. This is clearly Jürgen Moltmann’s most important book since ...
The Problem of Evil is not a single problem, but rather a family of arguments for the non-existence of God. In its least ambitious form, the argument cites the evil and suffering we find in the world ...
Roundtable Index: Introduction | Part I: Roth | Part II: Palazzi | Part III: Pearl | Part IV: Yellin | Part V: Guimond | Part VI: Glazov | Part VII: Evanier | Part ...
How the paradox comforts us in our own pain. I still vividly remember the first time I went to speak with an older, wiser Christian about some significant personal pain. I remember sitting down in his ...
The Catholic devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows is nearly 1,000 years old. Our Lady of Sorrows at the Church of the Holy Cross in Salamanca. (photo: Zarateman via Wikimedia / (CC BY-SA 4.0)) As an ...
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