In my younger, decidedly anti-Christian days, I did not like the way Christians asked God for mercy. It reinforced my idea that “the Christian God” was cruel and punishing. After all, if God was a ...

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Wisdom From the Psalms is not a book about the Psalms in general, nor an exhaustive commentary on all 150. Instead, the author, Boston College philosophy professor Peter Kreeft, has written a deep ...

Pope Francis said Wednesday there are Psalms to fit any need and that they should be learned by heart and repeated often. “It is necessary to make the Psalms our prayer,” the Pope said at his general ...