The only person who can eliminate the power of evil is God. This is what Benedict XVI said on Sunday, June 21st in San Giovanni Rotondo during an encounter with patients and medical staff of the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, a hospital founded by Padre Pio in 1956.Quoting the friar of Gargano, the Pope recalled that the commitment of science to cure the ill must never be separated from a filial confidence in God, who is infinitely tender and merciful.Benedict XVI explained that faith helps us penetrate the meaning of all that is human, hence also of suffering, because there is an intimate bond between the Cross of Jesus and our own suffering, which is transformed and made sublime when lived w ...