Life feels impossible, practically undoable, for so many. From hurricanes and extreme loss to failing relationships and financial stress. All around us, we see so much suffering. And we have so many ...

When we look around the world and see poverty, suffering and war it begs the question “how in the world can a good and loving God allow this to happened?” We may ask this same question when we ...

Kate Bowler leans, as I do, on a God who accompanies us through our suffering, as she felt God did during her cancer ...

If there is a God, why does He or She allow suffering? Good question! It is one with which all believers wrestle, and the short answer is that I do not know, at least not fully. The question is based ...

For the first time, I was drawn to the Stations not as a meditation on Jesus’ suffering but as a place to lay my own burden ...

Three major events are converging on Feb. 11 this year: the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the World Day of the Sick, and the 40th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s apostolic letter Salvifici Doloris ...

Q: I look forward to reading your column every week and have learned a great deal from you, and for this, I thank you. However, your claim in the Nov. 30 column that suffering "is a choice we make" ...

Religious types usually indicate that suffering and loss are components of karma, the divine plan, an intrinsic part of life, the result of past actions, a segment of human experience, a test by God, ...

How the paradox comforts us in our own pain. I still vividly remember the first time I went to speak with an older, wiser Christian about some significant personal pain. I remember sitting down in his ...

Q. I cannot understand why God allows so much suffering in the world. A loving father wouldn't allow his children to suffer. Yet God does nothing to help His children. One needs only to consider the ...