God is not some petulant deity sending disaster upon those who disobey; God is the God who meets us in disaster.

Love created us to be distinct from itself so that we could choose to love. It will not annihilate us, overwhelm who we are.

Doctrines and dogmas do not exist to provide esoteric data. Their purpose is always to tell us who we are, to proclaim who we can be in Christ.

Do Catholics truly believe in the real presence of Jesus Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist? A recent survey says most don't...but it's complicated.

Jacques Servais, S.J., speaks about the Swiss theologian and onetime Jesuit who wrote extensively on the process of discernment.

Theologian and Jesuit priest Michael Buckley, S.J., died last week in Los Gatos, Calif.