Another Quote From “The Shoes of the Fisherman”
As I continue to read the novel “The Shoes of the Fisherman”, I am moved again and again by the simple and profound wisdom that emerges from its pages. In the following quote a young woman is sharing with the new Pope about a series of terrible birth defects showing up in the Roman population. She asks him that eternal question- Why does a good God let these things happen:
“If I could tell you that,” said Kiril the Pontiff soberly, “I’d be God myself. I don’t know, though I sometimes wish I did. You mustn’t imagine that the mystery of faith is any simpler for than it is for you. The Act of Faith is an act of acceptance- not an explanation.“
It is this last statement that moved me. What does it mean to you?
