2021, issue 46, Bartholomew A. Konechni: More than eleven million people turned to watch Pope Francis give his exceptional Urbi et Orbi address to a deserted Saint Peter’s Square on the 27th March 2020. Not only was it a remarkable point that the Pope should give such an address, for the Urbi et Orbi is reserved almost exclusively for Easter and Christmas celebrations, but also that Pope Francis should make such a candid recognition of the central problem of theodicy in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
