act of grace

“He also is the reason I am sober. He helped me. I am forever grateful for him for the act of grace alone,” she wrote.

“He made me laugh, which is the one thing that a strong, capable woman, can’t really do for herself…. He also is the reason I am sober. He helped me. I am forever grateful for him for that act of grace alone.”

While no Socialist has spoken publicly about an amnesty, Sánchez has pardoned high-profile leaders of the movement in the past and appears willing to consider an even bigger act of grace to - as he says - “normalize” politics in northeast Catalonia.

What I didn’t grasp when I first watched the movie is that the act of grace I was anxiously waiting for had happened before the movie began.

While some Catholics protested that only God can remove a pope, others saw it as an act of grace that helped avoid a repeat of the increasing incapacitation suffered by John Paul II and that paved the way for future pontiffs to step down at the right time.