[ebb tide]

>>“Cardinal Tagle told The Telegraph: ‘We have to admit that this whole spirituality, this growth in mercy and the implementation of the virtue of mercy is something that we need to learn over and over again.<<

>>” ‘Part of it is also the shifts in cultural and social sensibilities such that what constituted in the past an acceptable way of showing mercy, … now, given our contemporary mindset, may not be any more viewed as that.’<<

>>“He said that the past approach in Catholic schools and other institutions had often been to dictate rules and tell people that they were ‘for your own good.’ ”<<

>>“ ‘Now with our growing sensibilities, growth in psychology, we realise that some of them were not as merciful,’ he said.<<

[DungeonMaster]

I like it that the world is coming to a merciful end.