Tiffany C. Jacobs delivers a faith-centered guide that validates spiritual wounds, restores hope, and helps readers ...

Synodal documents from the United States reveal that the U.S. Church must still address, especially, the enduring wounds of clergy sexual abuse and its coverup... But what does healing around this ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The return of a program that uses music to heal wounds of the soul filled one of Chicago's oldest churches Sunday. People connected to "Harmony Hope and Healing" were as happy as ...

Maureen Day suggests six guidelines to grow in charity rather than polarization: focus on building relationships, be willing to be uncomfortable, start with what we have in common, learn to recognize ...

Church is meant to be a place of grace, healing, and belonging — a spiritual home where people grow in faith and find community. But for many, it has instead been a source of pain. Whether it’s the ...

A new organization empowers Christian leaders to bridge toxic divides. Fifty-nine. That’s the number of times the New Testament instructs Christians on how to treat one another. Be at peace with each ...

Linda Martin grew up with death. As a child, she would see friends at church one week and then never again, she said. When the community’s elders gathered at someone’s home, she assumed the worst: ...

Bishop Lawrence T. Persico of Erie, Pa., speaks with Jim VanSickle of Pittsburgh, who told a Pennsylvania grand jury he was molested by a priest when he was a teenager in Bradford, Pa. VanSickle and ...

SOMEONE HE NEVER GOT TO KNOW. A COMPLEX FEELING FOR KEVIN PORTER. HIS ANCESTORS ONCE LIVED AND WORKED ON THIS LAND. NOW SACRED HEART CHURCH. SOME OF HIS ANCESTORS WERE ENSLAVED. SOME WERE ENSLAVERS.

I must raise the church’s sights to how mighty God is, while lowering their view of the problems. Only one week after I had candidated and been accepted as the new pastor of a different church, my ...

Seven pivotal priorities emerged from the Irish bishops’ Pre-Synodal Assembly meetings on Oct. 18 in Kilkenny, reflecting the hopes and concerns of the Irish faithful, drawing upon a series of ...