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Arch. Sheen on true and false mercy
Joseph Pronenchen, NCRegister
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Seventy years ago, Archbishop Fulton Sheen was already seeing something amiss because “too often by mercy is meant letting off anyone who breaks the natural or the Divine law, or who betrays his country. Such mercy is an emotion, not a virtue.”