Human error and evil being what they are, surely each and every day throughout the 365-day year must likely mark some terrible tragedy from the course of human history. Most of them, somewhat fortunately, if only for our sanity, are forgotten to the mists of the past. But not the date of 7 October, which joined the roster of unending tragedy last year, when Hamas launched its terror attack against Israel.
I remember the day well because the mind boggling horror of it occurred against the Christian joy to be had from pilgrimage’s end: that day a Catholic Herald pilgrimage arrived in Assisi, a few days after Saint Francis’s Feast Day on 4 October.
