not belong anywhere. Where can they go? Who wants them? Who will accept them for what they are? Yet we are not speaking of a mere passive acceptance here. Rather, we are daring to speak of a love that cannot leave broken, wounded people as they are, but wants to heal them, to enable them to become something still better. And that is what redemption encompasses: an acceptance of what we are, on account of Christ, and the beginning of the process of healing and restoration. That is what the Church
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