In the Year of Mercy, Pope Francis has called on the whole Church to rediscover the true meaning of the word ‘mercy’. During Lent we can start to make mercy a part of everything we do What is the most important attribute of God? Is it beauty? Is it that God is an uncaused being, an unmoved mover, the sustainer of the universe, the Lord of history, infinitely great? Karl Rahner’s answer was, “No, it is none of these things. It is mercy.”The question was posed to the great German Jesuit theologian in the late 1950s at an open discussion and Q&A session that he would run for a couple of hours on Friday evenings – a session that hundreds of students would voluntarily attend. Spontaneous questions came from the floor and Rahner would give unrehearsed re