By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing - Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. (Mt 5:4) In his commentary on this Beatitude in Jesus of Nazareth, Pope Benedict XVI writes that there are two kinds of mourning: “The first is the kind that has lost hope, that has become mistrustful of love and of truth and that therefore eats away and destroys man from within. ..."