![]() The most awful episode involves a family whose teenaged son killed an 8-year-old child, and how they contend with that horror. ![]() So different, in some cases-for reasons physical, mental, sexual or even criminal-they call into question who and what that a family is. Neither are the key characters in “Far From the Tree,” Rachel Dretzin’s documentary adaptation of Andrew Solomon’s much-honored book about how parents contend with, and continue to love, children who are utterly different from themselves. And nothing in the Gospels suggests he was an easy kid. ![]() ![]() Did Joseph and Mary love Jesus because he was the Son of God? Or in spite of it? Was the Holy Family principally holy? Or principally family? Jesus was adored, of course. ![]()
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