Atrocity and Silence: Where are the Voices?
Posted: August 29, 2014 Filed under: History, Religion, War Room | Tags: Academic term, Alma mater, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Catholic University of America, Donald Wuerl, Mass, Washington Leave a comment“Atrocities happen because there are people who commit them and because there are people who simply choose to remain silent.”
From This is no ordinary opening of an academic year, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., said toward the end of Mass for my alma mater’s academic year. “Atrocities happen because there are people who commit them and because there are people who simply choose to remain silent,” he said at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, adjacent to the Catholic University of America.
He said that we cannot ignore that there are today “brothers and sisters of our faith and of other faiths in a part of the world where there is clearly an effort to eliminate them”….(read more)
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