Hate isn’t the opposite of love; indifference is

Hate isn’t the opposite of love; indifference is Pope Leo XIV blesses a newlywed couple at the end of his general audience August 6, 2025, in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Photo: CNS/Vatican Media.

D.H. Lawrence once wrote a poem he called ‘History’, which reads like this: The listless beauty of the hour When snow first fell on the apple trees And the wood-ash gathered in the fire And we faced our first miseries. Then the sweeping sunshine of noon When the mountains like chariot cars Were ranked to…

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