Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

I love this! A time of MERCY!

"Mercy
is a larger theme than the question you raise [divorced and remarried
Catholics]. I believe this is the time of mercy. This change of epoch,
also because of many problems of the church — such as the example of
some priests who aren't good, also the problems of corruption in the
church — and also the problem of clericalism, for example, has left
many wounds, many wounds. The church is a mother: It must reach out to
heal the wounds, yes? With mercy. If the Lord never tires of forgiving,
we don't have any other path than this one: before anything else, curing
the wounds, yes? It's a mother, the church, and it must go down this
path of mercy. It must find mercy for everyone, no? I think about how
when the Prodigal Son returned home, his father didn't say: 'But you,
listen, sit down. What did you do with the money?' No, he held a party.
Then, maybe, when the son wanted to talk, he talked. The church must do
the same. When there's someone … but, it's not enough to wait for
them: We must go and seek them. This is mercy. And I believe that is a
kairos: This time is a kairos of mercy. John Paul II had this intuition
first, when he began with Faustina Kowalska, the Divine Mercy … he had
something, he intuited that it was a necessity of this time." Pope Francis