When we cease to be shocked by the suffering of either ourselves or our neighbors, we become protagonists in an ongoing drama. We’re no longer bots in a humorless, culturally programmed wasteland. We become free. And when we have discerned our course in freedom, we undergo whatever suffering that course may bring. By Heather King, Angelus News
In Donetsk, Ukraine, a cat looks down at a Ukrainian soldier resting in a trench on the frontline with Russian-backed separatists near Krasnogorivka village. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images)
