(Crux) Papal aide sees whole drama of trafficking in one Sierra Leone woman

June 19, 2020

(Excerpt) In his famed poem “Auguries of Innocence,” William Blake spoke of seeing “a world in a grain of sand.” In a sense, that’s what Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny sees in the death of a 23-year-old woman from AIDS in Sierra Leone last week – both the tragedy, but also the hope, facing modern-day victims of what Pope Francis calls a “throw-away culture.”