This special year for the Catholic Church is intended for Catholic adherents across the world to show mercy, as God is merciful to them.
In West Jordan, Utah, a spokesman for the Hassoun family, Tarek Nosseir, said Monday, "If he is still in captivity, we remind the captors of the saying of our beloved prophet: 'Be merciful to those on earth and mercy will descend upon you from heaven.' " In the airstrike on Falluja, the American military dropped the bombs in an eastern neighborhood, The A.P. reported.
God, our father, is so merciful to us.
THE years have been merciful to Sister Madeline Dorsey.
The Prophet Muhammad, he noted, had said that "if you are not merciful to Allah's creation, Allah will not be merciful to you".
But his logic -- if you cannot be merciful to all edible animals, you needn't be merciful to any -- is a recipe for moral indifference.
"We are very happy and merciful to God and the Americans, our uncles".
"We can no longer be merciful to these people," he told local television.
All the more merciful to gulp a frigid jolt of LiV vodka, neat and jargon-free.
A fatal injection, if that were possible, seemed more merciful to him.
In what sense would it be "merciful" to children in distant countries if Carson were to quickly "finish the job"?
