Addictions, fear, impossible perfectionism, consumerism and the inability to choose and love life are just some of the traps the devil uses to take away people's freedom, Pope Francis said.
The devil "wants to take possession of us in order to 'enchain our
The devil is sly and sneaky like a serpent and subtly entices people to sin, Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience Dec. 27.
Beginning a new series of audience talks about vices and virtues, the pope said that evil grows "when
Catholic author Tom Hoopes shares the story of how, throughout his adult years, he had been seeing regular visions of himself committing suicide: “It got so bad that for more 10 years or so I found I could no longer sleep without
Publisher Scott Richert writes that “fiction, like poetry, is the most important thing one can read outside of Scripture … Good fiction feeds and shapes the moral imagination, helping us to explore what it means to be human without reenacting in our
Assistant editor Ava Lalor writes that we shouldn’t let the devil steal our peace. This insight came from a recent confession, during which the priest told Ava that when the devil can’t get us to mess up big time, he does anything
St. Michael defeating Satan. Renata Sedmakova / Shutterstock Old Scratch is back in the news. Recently, in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Jesuit Superior General Father Arturo Sosa Abascal said: “We have formed symbolic figures such as the devil to
To most of the world, Pope Francis is the pope of the poor, foe of unrestrained free-market capitalism, reformer engaged in shaking up the Roman Curia, ecclesiological innovator committed to consultation, collegiality and decentralization in the governance of the Church. Francis is
Way back in 1968, the popular rock band The Rolling Stones had a classic hit called “Sympathy for the Devil.” That’s a tune that medieval historian Henry Ansgar Kelly could well be singing these days. Kelly, who teaches at the University of