....good question!!
"Where was God?'
The leader of 1.1 billion Roman Catholics also prayed for peace in
his native German, which he has mostly avoided to not hurt Polish and
Jewish sensitivities. He was forced to join the Hitler Youth and
drafted into the army during the war.
Scattered rain fell over Auschwitz until the main ceremony, when the
skies cleared and a rainbow appeared.
Benedict said it was almost impossible, particularly for a German
Pope, to speak at "the place of the Shoah."
"In a place like this, words fail. In the end, there can only be a
dread silence, a silence which is a heartfelt cry to GodWhy, Lord,
did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?"
"Where was God in those days? Why was he silent? How could he permit
this endless slaughter, this triumph of evil?"
Benedict, one of the Church's leading theologians, said humans could
not "peer into God's mysterious plan" to understand such evil, but
only "cry out humbly yet insistently to Godrouse yourself! Do not
forget mankind, your creature!"
--- End forwarded message ---
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