It is my understanding that a key tenet of our faith, as prescribed in the New Testament, is forgiveness. Time and again Jesus reminds His disciples that although the laws of His Father are ...

Daniel Burke of Religion News Service has a story noting that Catholic participation in the sacrament of confession (or, as it's formally known, "reconciliation") has plummeted. He cites a ...

On Dec. 10, 2003, a masked gunman shot every member of the Whitaker family as they returned to their Sugar Land home from a family dinner. Tricia Whitaker and her 19-year old son Kevin died. But ...

“When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.” — Bernard Meltzer FAMILY AND MARRIAGE: To err is human; to forgive, divine.

“Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” Jesus in Matthew 6:12 “To err is human, to forgive is divine,” said Alexander Pope, reflecting the centrality of forgiveness ...

Judaism teaches that God does not forgive sins committed by people against other people. First, we must ask the other person for forgiveness. In the time leading up to Yom Kippur, we are supposed ...

Dear Readers: I love this time of year. The bingeing of the holiday season has come to an end, and everyone is frantically trying to stick to New Year`s resolutions, having slipped only occasionally.

Hillary has forgiven him. Rev. Jesse Jackson said that at some point the nation has to forgive him. Mayor Richard Daley said that now is the time to forgive, while his brother, Commerce Secretary W… ...

The people who brought you Occupy Wall Street have come up with an extremely clever idea: raising money to buy random citizens’ overdue debt, and then—poof!—forgive it. One day a debtor is ...