Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." Jesus' words are clear. Yet for centuries we as Church and as individuals have made exceptions to this command to love and peace; we seek the goal of peace but avoid the means of peace. "Of Passion and Folly" presents the challenging call of Christ to love in all times and in all places, and reminds us that from the folly of the cross in the passion of Jesus, peace was born, and it can be born again.

In "Of Passion and Folly" Sister Patricia McCarthy, CND, demonstrates that - through Scripture, the sacraments, the formation of the...