Jennifer Horgan: Focusing on forgiveness would make our world a better place

In every aspect of our lives and in how we run society, cutting back on blame and focusing on forgiveness and rehabilitation would make our world better

'The Catholic Church, throughout the last century, was built on judgement, not forgiveness. It was inflexible and brutal.'

Reading stories collected through The Forgiveness Project online is an awe-inspiring experience.

Freddy Mutanguha was 18 when his entire family, bar one sister, was slaughtered in Rwanda. “It is so terrible to listen to your family being killed,” he shares. Of the man who organised the killing he says: “I don’t hate him, and I hold him no ill will.”