Canadian columnist, gifted speaker, author, and president of the Oblate school of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. He says: "Comfort ye my people! That too is a prophetic challenge, perhaps the deepest one of all. Our challenge as Christians is to take both God’s challenge and God’s consolation to the world. Throughout history, we have invariably been better at the former than at the latter. In recent months, Pope Francis, both in his person and his message, has been inviting us to focus more on bringing God’s consolation to the world, suggesting that speaking God’s ultimate consolation is the real apologetics that is needed." Here are some attempts and incites into naming these issues and offering some perspectives forward." ( )