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The exhortation to love one's enemies stands out as one of the most challenging of all of Christ's teachings, as the contents and obligations of such love are elusive, and their practical fulfillment is inescapably arduous. Between oneself and one's enemy stand an array of injustices and injuries that arouse layered emotional reactions, which often persist over extended periods of time. To love one's enemy is thus to rise above hurt, anger, resentment, and even hatred, and to offer instead the gift of mercy—to forgive.

In Pardon and Peace, Fr. John B. Burns provides a rich, interdisciplinary study of healing through interpersonal forgiveness, combining the findings of modern clinical psychology and the insights of St. Thomas Aquinas's theological anthropology.