Yesterevening I was reminded of an essential feature of my Catholic faith. An auxiliary bishop in his evening prayers talked about the notion that if one assumes oneself to be only evil, one tends to listen too much to the whispers of the great accuser, the devil.
There is this belief, this notion that one can turn at any moment and pursue the other road, there is this capacity for a change for the better. And why shouldn't we?! If one visits Rome and has a look at the two people that almost predominate the city, the fundament of the Roman Catholic church, it's Peter and Paul, and looking at their lives, there were certainly missteps. The one renouncing Jesus, not just once, but thrice, and the other one prosecuting, probably even killing, early Christians ;).
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