When Our Lady appeared to the children of Fatima she said many souls go to hell because no one prays for them.

Manhattan has never seen so many buildings rising at the same time.

The liturgical calendar is filled with events in the earthly life of Christ.

We hope our pastor and friends won't notice if we leave early, but Someone does. 

Mercy, taught Saint John Paul II, isn't a get-out-of-jail free card that enables us to consign Christian morality to the realm of "the ideal" or the too-hard-except-for-Super-Catholics.

Like two bookends, Jesus speaks of his "hour": at the beginning of his ministry at the wedding in Cana (John 2:4), and at the end when he says that his hour has come "to be glorified" (John 12:23).

As St. John Paul has selflessly proclaimed, "The Church must profess and proclaim God's mercy in all its truth, as it has been handed down to us by Revelation."

In a recently published interview on issues of justification and faith, Benedict XVI has addressed issues of mercy and our need for forgiveness, salvation through the cross, the necessity of baptism, and the importance of sharing in Christ's redeeming love.

One of the most dysfunctional ways that we form community is through the scapegoating mechanism.

From the moment Cain looks on Abel's excellent offering to God, disdaining both it and his younger brother (Gn 4:1-8), envy is born in the world.