When All You Can Pray Is “How Long, O Lord?”

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Hagar, Naomi and the faith that keeps speaking to God when suffering has no explanation. When Pope Leo asked “How long, O Lord?” after the deaths of a mother and daughter in Gaza, he used words which Scripture has preserved for people whose suffering has outlasted their capacity to explain it. The Pope wrote these…

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