--- Bosco D'Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll end here with today's Papal quote while > visiting Birkenau, the death camp section of the > Auschwitz complex: > > "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 God Why, 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?" (ENDS) > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12964054/ > Mario observes: > Pope Benedict XVI supposedly said at Auschwitz, "Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?" > If properly quoted in context, this is an amazingly peculiar and insensitive question coming from a Pope. Sounds like he was pandering to his audience. > My answer to him would be, with all due respect, > "I guess, the same way HE - and the Vatican - tolerated the priestly pedophiles for decades, and all the other genocides and mass atrocities before and after the Jewish Holocaust, some of which, like the Chinese and Russian pogroms, were far, far worse. > Pope Benedict XVI represents the same Vatican that opposed removing the brutal and sadistic regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq where mass political rapes, tortures and killings of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians had taken place for years. > This is the same Vatican that did not use its moral capital to speak out against the mass killings in Rwanda and Burundi in the 90's and has not used its moral capital to address the genocide in Darfur. > This is the same Pope who is pushing with unnecessary and inexplicable haste and personal bias for a "fast-track" beatification of his friend, mentor and immediate predecessor, Pope JP-II. Pope JP-II, in spite of his heroic efforts to free the old Soviet Union and his outreach towards other religions, was luke warm and relatively insensitive towards the victims of decades of priestly pedophilia, whose entire young lives were ruined, and seemed more concerned about "forgiving" the perpetrators and their enablers, even elevating the enabler Cardinal John Law, who had resigned in disgrace, to a prestigious position within the Vatican system. > Practicing Catholics need to be aware of these uncomfortable realities and separate the religion and way of life they believe in from the institutions and personalities that have often besmirched it, and continue to do so. >
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