Words in Pain Knecht

Words in Pain KnechtWe invite you in these meditations to consider less the horrors of Calvary and more its glory. The traditional emphasis on the human sufferings of Calvary seems to be due to the notion that Jesus was somehow defeated, even if only momentarily, on the Cross. He was not not for one moment. His whole Passion was an unbroken victory of the merciful ingenuity of God over the pathetic malice of men. We must not think of Easter and the Resurrection as

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frequency of confession

while the modern one simply doesn't

In it she found the simple truth about human existence

he found my father at a loss for words

Continuing his popular series of novels about saints of the Church

in their criticisms

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Far from being a reactionary this has been a pope of startling originality and intellectual range

and the state of the pre-Reformation Church

all the more striking since the dialogue has suffered so extensively from philosophical plum-picking

John's Gospel