A refreshing discussion of adultery

I appreciated Msgr. Richard Antall’s essay “The Church of Second Chances” for its unusually honest and thoughtful approach to marital infidelity, especially coming from a priest!

I haven’t read Anne Tyler’s “Three Days in June,” so I can’t offer an opinion on the book that Father read. But I know firsthand the wounds that the evil of infidelity causes in marriages. And that damage only gets worse when you can’t acknowledge or talk about it as a real problem, especially in church. 

Human weakness is an opportunity to experience God’s grace and forgiveness, as the adulterous woman in the Gospels discovered. Human effort always falls short. Thank you, Msgr. Antall, for not falling back on the standard moralistic approach to sin. With Christ, healing and conversion are indeed possible. 

— Thomas Rocco, Yorba Linda