SAT, FEB 18, 2023
2:00 PM ET | FLOOR 1

‘You will never succeed in convincing me to hate you’
(Josef Zverina)

Facing the mysterious existence of evil: forgiveness and hope with Diane Foley, mother of journalist Jim Foley, publicly beheaded by ISIS, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Anastasia Zolotova, Director of Emmaus, Kharkiv, and Ukrainian refugee, moderated by Amy Hickl, high school teacher

Violence and injustice, in all their variations, are evidence of a mysterious but undeniable reality in our lives: evil. We inevitably experience it as victims or as perpetrators, and in both cases, it does not leave us unchanged: it leaves us wounded. How can we deal with these wounds? Can they ever heal? Can evil be really forgiven? Do we truly desire to forgive (or to be forgiven)? Why? Speakers have been deeply touched by the reality of evil and will offer their witnesses in response to these dramatic and universal questions.