text: "unconditional love"
  
  needs to be better understood by people. Clearly.
  
  We just heard Our Lord during yesterday's (Tuesday's) Gospel lay down a firm "condition" on forgiveness!
  
  Jesus conditioned God's own forgiveness!! Yepper. Conditioned love.
  
  "Forgive us our sins, as we forgive..."
  
  That's a firm condition.
  
  "Abide in me..." another condition.
  
  Trendy, emotionally driven exegesis always leads one into a shallower understanding of the whole loving message of all of Scripture.
  
  The pope (at least truncated reports of what he says) tends to like to "atrract" by sweetening the message a bit, and then lightly-expectant people run into life or themlelves ill-equipped.