January 20, 2016

"The real question is not why the suffering, but where is God in the suffering. A loving God does not, could not, desire our suffering. Rather, God is not remote from us, especially in our pain: God suffers with us."

- Patty Fawkner, from Science, the existence of suffering, and God, published on Global Sisters Report; photo from Mater Pieta nuns care for women bereft of family support