as governing all, nothing ever appears accidental to them. Such things as “luck” and “fortune,” which most of us take for granted, do not exist for the saint because he believes in a personal God who is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving. One doesn’t have to be religious to feel comfortable with pain or to see the good that can come from it. But if suffering is to have meaning in a larger philosophical sense, and if we are to probe the nature of evil, we must turn to theology. Skeptics wince