Pain and Providence Connolly for its simplicity of content

for its simplicity of content and sincerity of intent

Our Lord told Margery Kempe

–Pope Benedict XVI

(Jacques Maritain)

Pain and Providence Connolly for its simplicity of contentBy Martin Cyril D'Arcy, S. J. Pain and Providence is, in form, a transcript of an intellectual society meeting to discuss the problem of evil and the existence of God; in spirit, it is a prcis of the diverse viewpoints that men and women hold in regard to whether a good and loving God can allow, let alone actively will, the experience of pain and suffering. An excellent companion piece to C. S. Lewiss The Problem of Pain in apologetics and G. K.