How do we respond when people we care about do things that seem misguided, faulty or fraught with peril?
Mary Marrocco: Truth and mercy meet on the cross
Ash Wednesday: Repentance as response to redemption
The reporter persisted, “Then just one quick question. I’m Catholic, too, and I thought we couldn’t have funeral Masses for convicted killers.” I looked at her and told her that her information was wrong. Then I added, “Redemption — we either believe in it or we don’t. I do believe in it.”
In the end, everyone faces God with ’empty hands,’ pope says
The pope announced the day’s catechesis would be the last in his series of audience talks on Christian hope, adding that the last talk, therefore, would look at hope’s final fulfillment in heaven.