Learn How to Weep: The Contemporary Challenge of Lament in Today's World

• Main Author: Ibita, Maricel S
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: Bible; Old Testament; psalms; lament; brueggemann; seasons of life; orientation; disorientation; new orientation; ps 88; ps 109; Pope Francis; Glyzelle Palomar; Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/theology-faculty-pubs/5; https://lirias.kuleuven.be/1876639?limo=0
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

In his encounter with the youth during his January 18, 2015 visit in the Philippines, Pope Francis was reduced to silence when Glyzelle Palomar, a street child, tearfully asked him: “Why do children suffer so much even if it is through no fault of their own?” The Pope digressed from his prepared spe...