‘My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?’

“Ever since the illness of my daughter, I have lost fervor in praying to God.”

So shared a mother of three recently about her diminished piety amid the life-threatening affliction of her eldest. She still goes to Sunday Mass and says grace at meals. But her doubts about God’s love, justice and concern for humanity, already strained by the spectacle of evil and calamity in the world, ebbed even more.