Grieving father: Why did God take my only child?

Pope Francis met with the father of social worker Kristel Padasas who died Saturday, after a scaffolding collapsed shortly after Pope Francis’ mass in Tacloban, Leyte. Paulino, in pain, had asked why his only child had been taken away from him. But despite Padasas’ grief, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle said the Pope was awed by the strength of Padasas’ spirit. “I have accepted. I have resigned to the fact that my daughter is no longer with me. I rejoice she died serving the people… and she was instrumental in my meeting the Pope,” Tagle quoted Padasas. At this point, Tagle said the only words that came out of the Pope’s mouth were, “What faith, What faith!”

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