Purgatory, like heaven and hell, is a state that exists outside of our earthly experience of time. So even if there was an easy way to determine whether or not someone is currently in purgatory, we couldn't really gauge that soul's spiritual progress there in terms of months, days or years.| Catholic Review
How often we create messes in our lives—whether we’re spilling something in aisle nine, hurting someone’s feelings, or taking a step that causes issues.| Catholic Review
Father Anthony Stoeppel, a diocesan priest of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas and professor of church management at the Catholic University of America's Busch School of Busine| Catholic Review
Matthew's emphasis on forgiveness can provide us consolation and hope as we recognize our inability to live up to the tenets of the Sermon on the Mount and other moral requirements.| Catholic Review
This descent into emotivism and sentimentality has profound consequences for society as well as for individuals.| Catholic Review
If you attend a church which blocks misfits, you're in the wrong church. Jesus welcomed misfits -- the Samaritan woman, the leper, the woman "caught in the very act" of adultery, the tax collector.| Catholic Review
I was sitting at work, eating my lunch alone, when I overheard a line from the next table: “Kids need lots of people who love them.”| catholicreview.org
