Carmelite Father Millan on Forgiveness and Judaism

Carmelite Father Fernando Millan Romeral, a professor at the Pontifical University of Comillas in Madrid, was interviewed by ZENIT, as reported in an article published today.  The subject of the interview was a comparison of Christian and Jewish ideas of forgiveness.  An excerpt:

"What has perhaps happened, at least in certain milieus, is that by preaching a merciful God, which could not be otherwise, we have forgotten that forgiveness means a "return" to God, a conversion -- that God does not rain down forgiveness and does not distribute it indiscriminately."