Tag: Forgiveness

The power of forgiveness can bring even the most broken marriages back to life.

Jan Ruff-O’Herne was a ‘comfort woman’ in Java in World War II. But she forgave her Japanese captors.

As the Israel-Hamas war nears its third year with no end in sight, Lebanese Bishop Mounir Khairallah is urging forgiveness as the only path to peace.

This week Fr Flader answers a commonly asked question people have about good and evil. Why does evil exist? Why did God create a world in which evil exists?

If our kids or their friends found themselves in trouble of some kind, would they flee to us? Or would we be last on their list if they needed help? How can we behave as parents, to help kids realise that we're on their side?

Try to accept what the Lord has already told you in the scriptures, over and over: he would much prefer to be merciful, rather than just.

In a powerful courtroom moment just before Holy Week, Irish Army chaplain Father Paul Murphy forgave the radicalised teenager who tried to kill him in a 2024 knife attack.

This is the edited text of the homily given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP for the Mass for the 5th Sunday of Lent, Year C, St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, 6 April, 2025. 

God's forgiveness is the source of hope for the faithful, Pope Francis wrote. "Indeed, with his mercy, God transforms us inwardly, he changes our heart," he said in a message to priests celebrating the Jubilee of the Missionaries of Mercy in Rome.

"Forgiveness always renews the family, making it look forward with hope," the pope said in a video message to present his prayer intention for the month of March: "For families in crisis."

The I4Give Foundation has released their 4 Steps to Forgiveness, a new initiative to help identify how to forgive and comprise of acknowledgement, acceptance, surrendering to God, and voicing forgiveness.

It is wonderful how the Church reminds us constantly of the mercy of God in the beautiful, diverse liturgies of our Catholic faith, says Joseph Boulos.