Cardinal Pell, Bishop Álvarez point to the power of prayer

“God writes straight with crooked lines, and given that I was sentenced to jail, I do regard it as a gift and a grace” said Cardinal Pell

(PerMariam) — Examples of authentic reliance upon the power of prayer can often feel like a much rarer thing to find today when contrasted with the golden ages of Church history and the many centuries replete with great missionaries fired with tireless zeal. But perhaps Catholics of today do not have to look very far to find two instances in which this …