COMMENTARY: The lines between a sinful act and a state of sin have been blurred. It’s time to clarify them. The Church is commissioned by Christ to give the faithful — especially those in states of ...

IN THE year 1939 the best Christian in the Rue Gabrielle, and indeed in all Montmartre, was a certain Monsieur Duperrier, a man of such piety, uprightness, and charity that God, without awaiting his ...

We don’t need to know about every person’s eternal destiny. We simply can’t know that. Even early Protestant leader John Calvin held that no one could know for sure if someone else was in the elect or ...

To be in a state of grace is to be absolved of sin. To repent is to be exonerated, and to atone is to be pardoned. To err is human, and to forgive is divine. It is the most revered sacrament because ...