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Illuminated by paintings including Sir Edward John Poynter’s The Prodigal’s Return, Amedeo Bocchi’s On the Lawn, Jacopo Bassano’s The Last Supper, Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ, Antonio Ciseri’s Ecce Homo, Salvador Dali’s Christ of St. John of the Cross, and El Greco’s Piet, McGrath’s new volume vividly explores the divine compassion that led God to sacrifice his only Son to save a world...

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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