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expositions-2486	none	Nonviolence: The Witness of a Church of Mercy	2020	22	.pdf	application/pdf	9026	391	58	That Pope Francis instituted an “extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy” points to the significance of mercy for commemorating the event that was Vatican II, which marked “a new phase” in the Church’s history and “a new way” of proclaiming the gospel.14 Like other Jubilee Years in the Church’s history, they are meant to be a time of pardon, of remission of penalties, of interrupting cycles of injustice and violence, so that persons and communities can heal relationships with one another and with God. Nonviolence as the Means of Mercy Throughout this essay I have attempted to weave together mercy and active nonviolence using texts primarily drawn from Pope Francis and the life of the Church.	cache/expositions-2486.pdf	txt/expositions-2486.txt