Source: Violetbonmua / Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-3.0 This post is Part 1 of a series. In my view, the problem of human evil has, with few exceptions (see, for example, Jung, Frankl, Lifton, May, ...

We open our discussion with a powerful statement from Father Pedro Arrupe, S. J., former head of the Jesuit order, in his 1973 Address to Graduates of Jesuit Schools in Europe: “It is easy to be good ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s sixth annual Circle Lecture on September 26, 2024. Over the last six decades, a certain phrase has ...

One of the great mysteries to believers and nonbelievers is that of evil and suffering. If there is a God who is omnipotent and omniscient, how can he tolerate evil, injustice and the suffering of the ...