In the musical Les Misérables, there’s a particularly haunting song, sung by a dying woman (Fantine) who has been crushed by virtually every unfairness life can deal a person. Abandoned by her husband, sexually harassed by her employer, caught in abject poverty, physically ill and dying, even as her main anxiety is about what will…
Storms we cannot weather
Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway star in a scene from Les Misérables. Photo : OSV News / Universal Studio.

Fr Ronald Rolheiser