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LESSONS FROM THE HOLOCAUST
The Holocaust, and every
other unspeakable crime against mankind, is a lesson, etched in unfathomable
suffering, stamped in blood and irrevocably sealed in dying — that we,
every man, every woman, every child, must never again make the pretense
of blindness in the face of evil. If we do not have the courage to confront
evil in uncompromising terms, to stamp out every vestige of evil in
our midst, to rip aside the euphemisms that we contrive to mask the
face of evil before the outrage of our conscience — then by our default
we have entered into complicity with evil. By our very silence we have
enacted, and continue to enact, the enormity we pretend to abhor. Because
we have failed to recognize our own destruction in the destruction of
the lives of others, the dying of every man, of every woman, of every
child by the sword of our silence is, despite our desperate pretensions,
the inexorable dying of our selves.
The Editorial
Staff
Boston Catholic Journal
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