From: "Shawn Albert" <shawn86@e...>
Date: Wed Oct 13, 1999 9:28 am
Subject: [ctngreg] Re: ctngreg digest
>8-Oct-99 -- EWTN Vatican Update
>PRELATE LAMENTS
"SILENCE" ON COMMUNIST CRIMES
>VATICAN
(CWNews.com) -- In a powerful statement to the European Synod,
Cardinal Christoph
Schoenborn of Vienna suggested that Church leaders in
Western Europe should
ask pardon for the "silence" of the hierarchy
in the face of
Communist crimes against humanity.
The Austrian cardinal
observed that the crimes of the German Nazi regime have
been exhaustively
discussed, but those of Communist governments are too often
"enveloped in a
cloud of ignorance and in silence."
"Did we-- the
Christians and the bishops of the West-- participate in that
silence?" the
cardinal asked? "Should we not ask for pardon in the course of
this Synod, so that
we can celebrate the memory of the
>martyrs with a
pure heart?" His remarks drew warm applause from the Synod
assembly.
Miracle of miracles.
Maybe the Pope will announce the excommunication of all
bishops who allow the
use of "extraordinary"
ministers, "altar girls" and aren't generous in extending the
Indult next? While I
doubt that'll happen anytime soon, I think it's good that a Cardinal is finally getting real and
talking about the REAL 'Holocaust'. Not to make light of the plight of the Jews during WWII, but
let's be serious. Hitler
was a
minor criminal compared to Stalin, Kruschev, Brezhnev, etc. and Mao. Even if
Hitler actually
killed
6,000,000, the
Communists did 10x that and more. How many millions still
languish in slave
labor camps in Russia and China today? We may never know in
this life,
but I for one am sick
and tired of hearing about the Jews. It is way past time we heard about the Catholic
martyrs in Russia and
China, the ones who've suffered more than any Jew in WWII ever did or could have. At least they
got out in '45, so at the absolute worst, any
given Jew could have been in a slave labor camp for no more than 13 years,
if put in one in
1933. Now, there
are people who have been in Communist camps for more than that, much more
than that. Even
Pastor Wurmbrand, who was a Lutheran, was stuck in a Communist slave labor camp for 14 years. Is there
anyone who would say the Jews suffered more than he did?
What happened to the
Jews was not right, not by any means, but why should they
get all the "credit"
for their suffering? Compared to the Catholics and
Protestants in Russia
& China, the Jews had it easy. I think instead of building a memorial to 'Holocaust', a
monument should be built
to the martyrs of the Communist regimes, to those Catholics who
gave their lives for God and their Catholic Faith. May the souls of all the Catholics who died
in Communist slave labor
camps and prisons, & all the souls of the faithful departed, rest in
peace. And may those
Protestants who died there, may they have received the
grace of conversion
before their death, so their suffering would not be in vain.
Shawn Albert
shawn86@e...
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