Still Running Off at the Keyboard

Susan Rauscher, diocesan secretary for pastoral and social concerns, quoted the Book of Revelation, Chapter 21, in noting that God tends to the broken-hearted with an abundance of compassion.

Through his compassion comes hope, she noted. Hurts are turned over and lives are made whole again.

“God’s goodness and love is always present to us,” she said.

Rauscher touched on the theme of compassion during an interfaith prayer service sponsored by the Religious Leadership Forum Sept. 15 at St. Paul Seminary in Crafton.

The service was held to pray for the some 300 babies found recently at the former home of a suspended funeral director in McKeesport.

The remains of the fetuses ranged from less than 16 weeks in gestation to full-term babies. They died as a result of stillbirth, miscarriage and abortion.

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