Cardinal Meisner’s Inspiring Words on the Virtue of Hope

These thoughts of Cardinal Meisner are worth our savoring in these troubled times. There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves, and two fishes (John 6:9).  No detail is insignificant in holy scripture, as the good cardinal notes regarding this boy chosen as God’s instrument for a great miracle. How prudent of this lad! How charitable, too — for he brought with him much more than he himself needed.

1Peter5, Maike Hickson: As we reported yesterday, Cardinal Joachim Meisner appears now to have been singled out especially for criticism among the Four Cardinals who have recently made public their dubia with regard to Amoris Laetitia.

In this context, we have thought it to be worthwhile to present a brief text that Cardinal Meisner wrote in April of 2016, the very month of the publication of Amoris Laetitia. The rest is here.