Part 2: It took one bite of an apple, as Genesis relates, but the full meaning of mercy in the story of good and evil lies underneath the surface, at the core.
Part 1: Eve picked the apple, took a bite, and gave it to Adam, who did the same. The worm turned. Paradise lost. How do we get it back, and how does Divine Mercy fit in?
On Feb. 11, Lourdes observed the 150th anniversary of the world's most famous Marian apparition. Marian Helper Marie Romagnano, our foreign correspondent, was on hand to report.
The special dispensation will be granted pilgrims who visit either the apparition site in France or a dedicated Lourdes shrine, such as the one at the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Mass.