Newsweek Columnist, Vice President of Content at Salem Media Group and host of "Our American Stories" It happens every day: God's grace changes hearts. Changes minds. And changes lives. It often ...

We don’t give a lot of thought to the topic of forgiveness unless we think we’ve been wronged. It feels more comfortable to point out the flaws in another person than to contemplate our own need for ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said Sunday that God forgets sins absolved within the confessional. “How do you defeat evil? Accepting God’s forgiveness. … It happens every time we go to confession; there ...

Pope Francis goes to confession during a Lenten penance service in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican March 25, 2022. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen ROME — The sacrament of reconciliation “is not ...

Myisha Cherry demands dignity for wronged individuals in her book Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better, placing special attention on Black women. It declares that ...

I keep meeting people with deep scars on their consciences, festering wounds of guilt they cannot fully suppress. It seems they cannot find forgiveness. Pope Francis often recommends that we seek ...

Pope Francis said Sunday that God forgets sins absolved within the confessional. "How do you defeat evil? Accepting God's forgiveness … It happens every time we go to confession; there we receive the ...