‘The Lord shows us how it is important to be happy in all situations’

I once brought tears to the eyes of the new patriarch of the Chaldean Church. He’s known as Paul III now, but back in 2016 he was an archbishop, formerly of Mosul, in Iraq. He had recently been reassigned to Australia, where many an Iraqi had fled the so-called Islamic State (or “ISIS”) genocide. I said the archbishop: “Surely someone asked you if he could pretend to renounce Jesus, jus...

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