The Humor of Suffering

A lighter piece: Can strong faith make you more humorous?

Though I disagree with Kerry Trotter about her (admittedly biased) speculation that perhaps Catholics understand humor best of all because they have “suffered better than anyone,” her example of St. Lawrence does shed light on a beautiful truth of Christianity and, for that matter, any belief in an afterlife.

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