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“Why did God allow this to happen?”
“Is God sending us a message?”
“Is God punishing us in some way?”
As he sat in a garden between the Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul and the cathedral rectory on an afternoon a few days before Easter, Tobin acknowledged that even some of the most faithful cannot have helped but wonder if a greater and not necessarily benevolent power was involved.
He does not believe that.
Instead, the bishop  who turned 73 on Thursday  answers those questions with reminders of history, current events and one’s own day-to-day experiences.
“I think the pandemic occurred because we live in an imperfect world,” Tobin said. “There are always outbreaks of disease in various parts of the world. This one is unusual in its scope and its severity, but there is always disease, there are always natural disasters, there are always hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes and floods. ....

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