Sometimes it feels as though evil has no limits or boundaries.

That’s the only takeaway after two nuns were brutally slain in Holmes County earlier this week.

Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill were nurse practitioners who dedicated their lives to taking care of the poorest of the poor. Their needless deaths have left a hole in the rural community, The Associated Press reported.

“She doesn’t deserve to die like this, doing God’s work,” Joe Morgan Jr., a 58-year-old former factory worker who has diabetes and was a patient of Merrill’s, said. “There’s something wrong with the world.”

He’s right. There is something tragically wrong in the world when two 68-year-old nuns are found stabbed to death.

Rev. Greg Plata of St. Thomas Catholic Church in Lexington, where the nuns had led Bible study for years, said both nuns’ religious communities have asked that people pray for the killer or killers, AP reported.

“Forgiveness is at the heart of being a Christian,” he said. “Look at Jesus on the cross: ‘Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.'”

“Sister Paula would want me to forgive them,” Morgan said.

That’s all that can fix a world where two kind, loving women who did so much good are murdered. If they could, those two nuns would likely say that forgiveness through Christ is the answer, the antidote to a rotten, terrible world. And they would be right.

May these two sweet souls always be remembered as servants of Christ.