After admitting an affair, evangelical Philip Yancey retires, confessing failure and saying he stands only on God’s grace.

God, have mercy on me! God of Love, God of Grace, God of Mercy, have mercy on me for the things I have done and for what I have left undone. Have mercy on me. I pray for God’s mercy in the morning, in ...

The Year of Mercy comes to an end just as Americans are setting our tables for our traditional harvest feast. Thanksgiving is a secular holiday, but the coincidence is pleasant. It sets a nice bookend ...

An Advent reading for December 21. As we journey through the events surrounding the Nativity, we contemplate the Incarnation. Jesus—the Mighty God, the Prince of Peace, the Light of the World—became ...

One of the puzzles some Catholics struggle with is the fact that we encounter the grace of God beyond the sacraments. In Matthew 25, for instance, Jesus talks about the salvation of the nations in ...

Christ gave sight to a blind beggar whom others ignored. For Pope Francis, this bears an important lesson for Christians today. "We are witnesses not of an ideology, of a recipe, of a particular ...

QUESTION: Grace says I'm forgiven for my sins because of the perfect and finished work of Christ. I believe this. I am saved not because of my own goodness or efforts, but in spite of myself, based ...

Asked to judge a woman "caught in the act of adultery," the Gospel of John says Jesus stooped, wrote something in the dust, ...