Vatican City, Jan 27, 2004 / 22:00 pm
Resuming his commentary on the Psalms, Pope John Paul said during his Wednesday catechesis that God is not indifferent to good or evil, but takes the side of the good.
Speaking about Psalm 10, “The faith of the just is in the Lord,” the Pope said that “the spiritual tone of the entire hymn is expressed well by the concluding verse: ‘The Lord is righteous, He loves righteous deeds.’”
“This is the root of all faith and the source of every hope in the day of darkness and trial. God is not indifferent to good and evil. He is a good God and not a dark power, indecipherable and mysterious,” he added.
John Paul II indicated that in the first of the two episodes of the psalm “the godless one is described in his apparent triumph,” as the one who wants “to violently strike his victim, the faithful” and the faithful “feels alone and powerless before the eruption of evil.”