Guest Columnists

When my barber David Knight who worked in the U.S. Senate building died, it felt like losing a beloved family member.

Christian tradition suggests that if God really is who God has revealed himself to be, God’s presence is compatible with our free will and even with the fact that evil exists. First, though, it’s important to name three contemporary approaches that are distortions of Christian divine providence.

Just get out and spend some time in a local state park and realize all this is in danger. Know that our small, pale, blue dot of a planet is fragile and in desperate need of our care and concern.

The church teaches a twofold judgment, one at the moment of death and one with all other souls at the end of time, explains Father Kenneth "Question Corner" Doyle.