Mercy True and False

In anticipation of the Synod on the Family—with prayers for mercy from heaven

The Prodigal Son

I’ve been thinking a lot in the past year about “mercy.” One could legitimately call it the very heart and soul of Christianity: Our Lord came down to save us out of His unspeakable mercy. Notably, St. Thomas Aquinas holds that mercy is the greatest of the divine attributes. The traditional Latin