Catholic Church

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - German Catholic Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller condemned abortion in a recent interview, saying killing unborn babies is “the most heinous crime against life.” Catholic World Report published an interview with Müller, translated from German, in which he criticized the growing global push to redefine abortion as “health care” and a “human right.” ..

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - Many years ago, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger hoped to retire from his service as the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He planned to spend his twilight years studying the problem of evil. His plans were noteworthy for ordinary Catholics. Evil and the mystery of human suffering continued to perplex one of the Church’s greatest theologians. The Passion of Jesus and Holy Week provide the context to consider human freedom, evil, and its terrible consequences.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - By Msgr. Charles Pope - The Passion, which we read in the liturgy for Palm Sunday, is too long to comment on in detail, so we will only examine a portion of it here... It may be of some value to examine the problems associated with the more moderate range of personalities involved. The usual villains (the Temple leaders, Judas, and the recruited crowd shouting, “Crucify him!”) are unambiguously wicked and display their sinfulness openly. ...

By Brian Pizzalato, CNA - Two questions have plagued the minds of Christians and non-Christians alike: why is there suffering? Why does God allow suffering?... There is one person who stands out above all to give an answer to these deepest of questions, namely St. Paul. In St. Paul’s writings we find a greatly developed meaning of suffering. Pope John Paul II explains why St. Paul writes so much on suffering: “The Apostle shares his own discovery and rejoices in it because of all those whom it can help – just as it helped him – to understand the salvific meaning of suffering” ...