I do not think it an understatement to argue that temptation is a necessary (though not sufficient) condition for sin. If that is true, then one faces a dilemma. If God works all things for the good ...

This is a listener-supported podcast! Thanks for your help! The trials of St. Anthony the Great (251-356 AD), as described in St. Athanasius’s Life and the medieval Golden Legend, have been a favorite ...

Considering how much of the moral life involves overcoming temptation, it’s surprising how little attention the subject receives. (Let’s be honest: when was the last time you found yourself in a ...

VATICAN CITY-- The 40 days of Lent are a time of spiritual renewal in preparation for Easter, but they also are a time to recognize that evil is at work in the world and even the Catholic Church faces ...

Not long ago Pope Francis expressed concern that, in praying the Our Father, people should not think that God ever leads them into temptation, so another translation would be better. Actually, however ...

St. Jerome writes to one of his friends about a mutual friend, Bonosus, who has become a hermit on a remote island. The devil will tempt him, says St. Jerome, but Christ will defend him from those ...

One afternoon last week, three things occurred that, to my mind, point the way forward for the church in the United States to begin recovering some semblance of its catholicity, a 21st-century ...

We are all tempted at times. Even Jesus experienced temptation. However, prayer helps strengthen us when we face temptation so that we can resist it through Christ's power. When praying against ...

Attempts to make the church smaller and more pure will only achieve one of the two—and it is probably not the latter. That was the message from Cardinal Joseph Tobin in a talk at Villanova University ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has said the Roman Catholic Church should adopt a better translation of the phrase "lead us not into temptation" in the "Our Father", the best known prayer in ...