Msgr. Joseph Prior explains the emphasis on mercy in this Sunday's Gospel. God’s judgment on the world is forgiveness and Jesus pours forth this mercy in his ministry, passion and death.

(RNS) — The Trump Justice Department has filed a formal complaint against a federal judge for asking one of its lawyers how Jesus would have reacted to a policy allowing discrimination against a ...

A judge has ordered that a man who plotted to kill a prosecutor while claiming to be suffering from delusions that he was “evil Jesus” be moved to a medium secure mental health unit ahead of ...

Judge Reyes then asked the Justice Department lawyers to tell her whether, in their view, such actions are discriminatory. "What do you think Jesus would say," Reyes proceeded to ask, about an ...