Hope in the Media – The Grace to Forgive Amidst Public Executions – Fr. Eamonn McCarthy & Dónal O’Sullivan-Latchford
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Donal O'Sullivan Latchford and Fr Eamonn McCarthy start from a week of harrowing news, including an execution in the United States that is to be live-streamed, and ask what happens to a society when vengeance is mistaken for justice. Fr Eamonn tells the story of a woman who visited her son's killer in a Brazilian prison to demand an answer, and the question that eventually changed everything. They then turn to a BBC travel programme in which a comedian and his Ugandan guide clash openly over Uganda's anti-gay laws, a rare mainstream airing of a disagreement about free will that leads them on to whether the law should enforce morality at all, and to the Ten Commandments in Texas classrooms.
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