“We are truly the holy people of God, even if, due to our sins, we are not yet a people fully united,” the Holy Father said Jan. 20, adding that “the mercy of God, which works in baptism, is stronger ...

I was driving into church and I put in a cassette tape of the song “Mercy Came Running.” I arrived at the worship center and went up to my office, did a little preparation and came down to the stage.

Baptism must be seen near the heart of our faith and presented as significant, but not allowed to separate Christians into groups of resentment or condescension. It must not become the “water that ...

We live in a graced world but it is often marred by failure and sin. Relationships are broken, terrible things are said and done, and hatred and vengeance can take hold of people’s hearts. Human ...