An Italian woman whose son has been in a vegetative coma for two years asked the pope what happens to her son's soul.
In response, Benedict XVI offered a homespun analogy: The soul is still present in the body, even if the body can't express it -- like a guitar, he said, with broken strings.
John Allen on the pope's ability to express complex theological ideas simply
1 brave one(s) among us:
That is such a great analogy. It deserved being spread across the blogosphere.
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