
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.
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal

Totally Faithful to the Sacred
Deposit of Faith entrusted to the Holy See in Rome
Scio
opera tua ... quia modicum habes virtutem, et servasti verbum
Meum, nec non negasti Nomen Meum
I
know your works ... that you have but little power, and
yet you have kept My word, and have not denied My Name.
(Apocalypse
3.8)
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