It was a lazy Sunday morning when my 6-year-old daughter came skipping down the stairs, greeting us at the breakfast table. My brother-in-law was in town visiting, and we were all sipping on coffee, ...

I had agreed, along with 11 other people from my congregation, to attend a program on congregational discernment, but I was not looking forward to it. I was skeptical of the diocese’s ability to teach ...

The word discernment has a central, even critically important place in the development of “The Joy of Love,” Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the family. In referring to discernment ...

Pope Francis holds a gift during his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Dec. 21, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) Below is the text of Pope Francis’ weekly Wednesday audience, delivered ...

Catholic journalists know that discernment stories are popular because they give readers hope. And they often follow a pattern: They usually include a "God moment" in which the subject, through a ...

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till ...