Sermon: Compassion Changes Conditions Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost, posted by Rian Adams I cried when I read the hunchback of Notre Dame. Victor Hugo’s novel is a masterpiece that stays with you your whole life because we see pieces of each character in ourselves. In the beginning, we meet Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame. It is the Festival of Fools in Paris. The crowds elected him the “Pope of Fools” because he was the ugliest person in Paris. They heaved him on a throne and paraded him through the city streets as the crowds mocked him. Then…