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In a column today, David further reflects on the lessons of this episode: “This Lent, let us pray for all those who are victims of their own mistakes, those who have experienced moments of bad judgement, who have given-in to the worst angels of their nature...”
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...who have succumbed to temptation. That includes all of us, I imagine. And some of those moments of failing to bend to God’s will are far worse than others.” see p 16: dcdiocese.org/news/archive/3…
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He adds: “Let’s pray that we can forgive those whose moments of bad judgement have affected us, and that those who have been affected by our moments of bad judgement, can forgive us. Let us pray that we, each and every one of us, can find healing in the Loving Lord.”
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Like David Meyers, editor of The Southwest Kansas Catholic
(Diocese of Dodge City) I was “gobsmacked” to learn that for many years, one of their columnists, a Dominican Sister, had been plagiarizing my column on saints from @GiveUsThisDayLP See:
dcdiocese.org/swkscatholic
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Thank you for this sharing this story today. No doubt on many levels, it shows the power of evil (not only in those who wielded the machetes.) But in Rwanda I also heard testimonies that showed the power of love. Our future depends on which is ultimately stronger.
Exhibit at the Genocide Museum in Kigali, Rwanda:
Fillette Uwase
Age 2
Favorite toy: Doll
Best friend: Her Dad
Behavior: A good girl
Cause of death: Smashed against a wall.
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Fascinating to see how certain people get mad when they think you are being mean to Nazis and Klansmen.
Especially if your name ends with “Berg.”
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3 Black Churches Have Burned in 10 Days in a Single Louisiana Parish nyti.ms/2ImnE7V
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If there were many perpetrators as well as guilty bystanders, there were also those who showed immense courage in efforts to save others. And among those labeled “cockroaches” there were many who bravely asserted their humanity and died proclaiming the name of God.
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Let us not suppose that such a thing could not happen again or could not happen here. It could. It has.
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It doesn’t begin with bombs and machetes. It begins with dehumanization of the “other,” with scapegoating, with “They’re not human beings, they’re animals.” The antidote also begins now—in resisting hate, in proclaiming and defending the sacred dignity of all God’s children.
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