healing

Christmas is the perfect time to mend hearts and restore peace through forgiveness.

Suicide is not a failure of faith, but often a cry from pain. Christ meets us there, finding us where we are — even in the shadows of grief, illness, or despair.

There are as many reasons for coming back to the church as there are people who left. While God is at the center of each person’s decision to return, the circumstances are varied. Here are 10 reasons that influenced the decision of others to return to the practice of the Catholic faith.

Healing was a primary ministry of Jesus; today, the Church seeks to be the hand of the Lord reaching out in healing and in the midst of human struggle or diminishment.

If we are to be a synodal church, we must do this; we must show that the church is listening, and has heard the reverberating cries of our victims, and of those who have left the pews out of disgust for our sins, and that it is genuinely and demonstrably repentant.

A Maine parish has become a hub of healing as its community grapples with a devastating mass shooting. A recent prayer vigil commemorated the 18 victimsthat were killed.

Irving Houle had prayed for, and apparently received throughout the last 16 years of his life, the privilege to share in Christ’s sufferings as a disciple in a particularly unique way; he apparently had the stigmata.

A new resource for tracking Native residential schools affiliated with the Catholic Church marks a major advance toward healing the wounds of systemic abuse, said project organizers.