Fox News’ Shannon Bream believes suffering is part of spiritual maturity. “So I think suffering matures us and makes us more ...
But on the other hand, a journey exists for the sake of the destination. Lent without Easter misses the point of Lent. St. Peter called us to “rejoice in so far as you share Christ’s sufferings, that ...
We recently celebrated the feast of Saints Peter and Paul on June 29, two pillars of our Christian faith, Apostles of Christ, and martyrs of the Church. These two saints were not perfect. One denied ...
Public or Private? It was not a question I expected to be asked during a six-week pilgrimage my husband and I made to Spain and Portugal. In Barcelona, I knew that I needed to get to a hospital when ...
Suffering is something that people aim to avoid at all costs, seeking the easy, comfortable life instead. However, suffering can be a beautiful, purifying thing, unveiling our desire for something ...
In our doctoral seminar we were discussing theories of mission. Our professor, who had grown up in the mission field in China, had personal experience with the ideas we were playing with. He closed ...
As we begin the season of Lent, when we can more closely contemplate Christ’s passion and death, we have an opportunity to reflect on how Christ’s suffering helps us understand the suffering we face ...
Tom Griffin is the chair of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of a print and online Catholic magazine called The Empty Tomb ...
Houston Texans quarterback CJ Stroud knows that suffering is part of life but also that God uses it to draw us closer to Him.
Terminal cancer, a chronic illness, rape victims, sexual abuse, a strained marriage, an autistic child, a relative's suicide, dementia, deep doubt—the list of suffering seems endless. Week after week ...
Christians should be known for uplifting the afflicted before a distracted world. By now, two years after the initial conflict, many Americans have largely forgotten about Ukraine. As often happens ...