It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

The Church's teaching isn't an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through time.

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.

God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.

What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.