Mary Lai Thi Hoang, 87, seated in a wheelchair, sells lottery tickets in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City for a living. Many old people, their children too poor to support them, have to do various kinds of manual work to survive. (Mary Nguyen)
by GSR Staff
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