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I have trouble dealing with the concept of God accepting pain or illness as payment for some kind of wrongdoing. Jesus did it, but he is God. Is my friend correct? Am I?
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I have trouble dealing with the concept of God accepting pain or illness as payment for some kind of wrongdoing. Jesus did it, but he is God. Is my friend correct? Am I?

Our faith has a way of answering questions and helping us understand that their deaths and those of all our loved ones are not signs of an ending, but rather a new beginning for them.

Reflect The jack pine is a paradox: it can be easily killed by wildfire, and yet that’s the only way its serotinous cones can release

Speakers whom I greatly respect have said that Catholics should not do yoga or Pilates™. Does the Catholic Church allow this?

To parent with the fruits of the spirit with unconditional love, patience, gentleness, and self-control is to parent biblically.

Reflect As I walked down a snowy street, a child emerged from the neighborhood school bus, and I began considering what I might say as

Why does the Roman Catholic Church call itself that? Jesus stood against everything that the Roman Empire represented—the power, the might and the violence. Rome figured mightily in his death on the cross.

We all know that the three cornerstones of the Christian message are faith, hope, and charity.

Reflect Made in the image of the Trinity, we’re created for communion with each other. But community is also fragile, and we’re living in a time

Years ago in parochial school, I recall that we were told that the Douay-Rheims version was the only one that we were allowed to read. The teacher even said that reading any “Protestant” Bible, especially the King James Version, was sinful.