Folks, I've just finished reading the latest Encyclical Letter from the Holy Father, Spes Salvi. It is full of light. I think that it would be presumptuous of me to offer a standard critique of all of it. Therefore, I will quote periodically some of the passages that had the greatest impact on me and briefly comment on them. Here's one, on the second half of paragraph 33:…To pray is not to step outside history and withdraw to our own private corner of happiness. When we pray properly we...