The writer of a Local View column asked on Feb. 21, "Where is God when the destitute need Him?" Humans have been dealing with this question for as long as they have been around. The Bible makes the ...

The world watches in horror as rebel extremists surge across Iraq. Videos graphically depict the daily violence in Syria. Closer to home, yet another gunman has razed innocent victims in a public ...

We must reach beyond the medical model to understand the relationship between pain and suffering in a new way.

Benjamin Franklin famously declared that only death and taxes are certain. But he forgot one thing: Suffering is the third universal—as inescapable as mortality, as indifferent as the IRS. Every major ...

Hosts Fr. Benedict Groechel and Dr. Alice Von Hildrebrabde discuss some answers to the problem of suffering, and how we can use our faith to overcome this hurdle in life.