One need not expend much time or energy to find it. We seem to inhabit a world all but inundated with suffering. Beyond the question of why God allows suffering is the question of whether God Himself ...

Lawrence OP: Painting by Vittorio Carpaccio, conceived as a meditation on suffering, death, and resurrection. It hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC / flickr These, and other arguments, are ...

“The Christian God can’t exist. Why would a good God allow innocent people to suffer and die with no clear purpose?” God can bring good from evil and he can more than compensate us. The faculties that ...

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 ...

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 ...

The question that many wrestle with in moments of pain and uncertainty is simple yet profound: Why doesn’t God stop our suffering? It’s a question that transcends religions and beliefs, striking at ...

Asbury Park, NJ, September 21, 2023 --(PR.com)-- “The Benefits of Suffering: God Is Too Good to Make You Suffer”: a potent discussion of the realities of sin and suffering. “The Benefits of Suffering: ...

I am a Christian and I love God. Yet I have gotten cancer three times. How can I still believe God loves me? Yet I do. Am I naive? Am I stupid? Am I deluded? What about someone whose child dies? One ...

Pope Francis emphasized how suffering can become “an occasion for a transformative encounter” with God in a new message released Monday, describing three distinct ways the divine draws close to those ...

COMMENTARY: In 1994, John Paul II saw his hospitalization as suffering to be offered for families. Pope Leo’s surgery may ...

I am lying in a hospital bed. This year I have spent nearly two months in the hospital, recovering from massive abdominal surgery and learning to live, practically and spiritually, with intestinal ...