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Day 44: 'Faith Severley Tested'

HOMEPAGE BLOGS NEWS REPORTS INDEX Day 44: NEWS JUNE 2007
Original Source: SKY: 16 JUNE 2007
Updated: 12:21, Saturday June 16, 2007
Headline edited to

A Question Of Faith For Madeleine's Parents

 
The parents of Madeleine McCann say their Catholic faith will be "severely tested" if their daughter is not found alive and well.

Gerry McCann and his wife Kate have taken comfort and strength from their religious beliefs during their 44 day ordeal.

And during a tour of Europe to publicise Madeleine's disappearance from Portugal, they met the Pope in Rome.

But Mr McCann, 39, a consultant cardiologist, told The Tablet Catholic newspaper: "If we don't get Madeleine back alive and well, I am sure our faith will be severely tested.

"At the end of it, we will still have our faith and we will also have comfort that Madeleine will be looked after.

"We haven't dwelt on that but I think that is what we will be left with.

"Our friends, our family, the Church, have really rallied round. I think that's the key thing for me."

Mrs McCann, 38, said she had also questioned if her belief was strong enough.

"I have felt guilty asking, 'Will this make or break my faith?' And yet at the same time you could argue that what's happened in the first place could make or break your faith and it hasn't.

"It's done the opposite. It has given us hope and strength."

The part-time GP said the moment she realised Madeleine, four, was missing left her feeling "absolute fear and panic".

The couple saw a psychologist when they thought Madeleine - snatched from the family's holiday apartment - was "likely to be dead".

Mr McCann said: "We couldn't get out of our heads that she was likely to be dead and we were truly, truly grieving.

"But then the psychologist said, 'Is there any other possibility?' And then he started channelling negatives and saying, 'Of course there are other possibilities.' And we started to see that."

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