Holocausts

The number of holocausts that occurred in the past 100 years is incredible and the body count is astronomical. What is especially troubling, from a Catholic standpoint, is that many Catholic laymen and clergy are uninformed about the suffering, persecutions, massacres, and martyrdom that Catholics and other Christians endured in recent history.

It is amazing that when I ask fellow Catholics if they are aware that an estimated five million Christian noncombatants were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, I usually receive a blank stare. I discovered that many Catholics are also unaware that saints like Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe were canonized after being killed in the Nazi death camps. Additionally, most Christians are untutored to the fact that tens-of-millions of Christian soldiers died fighting to crush Nazism.

The ignorance gets worse. Most Christians do not know about the 14.5 million Ukrainian Orthodox Christians butchered, by Bolshevik Communists, seven years before the Jewish Holocaust. The Ukrainian Holocaust occurred in proximity to Germany and was part of an estimated 30-to-40 million people, primarily Christians, who were slaughtered in the Soviet Union by the commissars.

The murder of millions of Armenian Christians by the Turks at the beginning of the 20^th Century is also absent from collective Christian memory. The decades-long slaughter of hundreds of thousands of African Christians in Darfur has just recently made the news. It is presented in information channels as an ethnic struggle. At this moment, we can find blurbs published in small print in section D of the newspapers about Christians are being persecuted in China, India, Iraq, and Palestine/Israel.

What is even more disturbing is that these holocausts pale in comparison to the worldwide Abortion Holocaust, which has claimed the lives of hundreds-of-millions of unborn children. In the

United States

alone, an estimated 50 million abortions have occurred since abortion was nationally legalized in Roe v. Wade in 1973.

National statistics indicate that an overwhelming number of Americans still consider themselves to be Christians. Catholics and Christians are exterminating themselves to the point that the

United States

must import tens of millions of immigrants to fill the population void.

The same dynamic is occurring in Europe, which is dying off because of abortion, contraception, and sterilization. The ultimate irony of all this is that abortion is illegal in most Islamic countries, which Christians view as inherently evil. The Blessed Mother warned that God will punish the world because of this abomination and cast the unrepentant into the fires of Hell.

What do we do? It seems like we need to take instructions from the Jewish people on how to remember our victims. Christians must end the silence and openly talk about the holocausts others have inflicted on us and the culture of death holocaust of abortion we have inflicted upon ourselves. Christ’s followers must make memorials to honor these victims. We need movies, documentaries, radio programs, and talk shows. We must de-fund organizations, corporations, and media which either mock, trivialize, ignore, or omit the suffering of Christians and the unborn.

For obvious reasons, the Jews do not want humanity to forget what the Nazis did to them in the Shoah, otherwise it will happen again. It is critical that Christians, who adhere to the culture of life, apply the same logic. The only difference between the violence of the Shoah and the violence against Christians and the unborn is that Catholics and other Christians have let the world forget our suffering and the suffering of the aborted. It not only will happen again, it is occurring right now.

Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI identified that the Nazi persecution of the Jews was monstrous. They wrote and spoke repeatedly about the sanctity of all human life. Let us honor Christ and His Church in respect for life by remembering the terror inflicted by Satan’s followers on the unborn, Christians, Jews, Moslems, and anyone else who truly thirsts for Christ’s truth.

JMJ

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Holocausts by D. A. Davis posted November 25, 2006 The number of holocausts that occurred in the past 100 years is incredible and the body count is astronomical. What is especially troubling, from a Catholic standpoint, is that many Catholic laymen and clergy are uninformed about the suffering, persecutions, massacres, and martyrdom that Catholics and other Christians endured in recent history. It is amazing that when I ask fellow Catholics if they are aware that an estimated five million Christian noncombatants were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, I usually receive a blank stare. I discovered that many Catholics are also unaware that saints like Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe were canonized after being killed in the Nazi death camps. Additionally, most Christians are untutored to the fact that tens-of-millions of Christian soldiers died fighting to crush Nazism. The ignorance gets worse. Most Christians do not know about the 14.5 million Ukrainian Orthodox Christians butchered, by Bolshevik Communists, seven years before the Jewish Holocaust. The Ukrainian Holocaust occurred in proximity to Germany and was part of an estimated 30-to-40 million people, primarily Christians, who were slaughtered in the Soviet Union by the commissars. The murder of millions of Armenian Christians by the Turks at the beginning of the 20^th Century is also absent from collective Christian memory. The decades-long slaughter of hundreds of thousands of African Christians in Darfur has just recently made the news. It is presented in information channels as an ethnic struggle. At this moment, we can find blurbs published in small print in section D of the newspapers about Christians are being persecuted in China, India, Iraq, and Palestine/Israel. What is even more disturbing is that these holocausts pale in comparison to the worldwide Abortion Holocaust, which has claimed the lives of hundreds-of-millions of unborn children. In the United States alone, an estimated 50 million abortions have occurred since abortion was nationally legalized in Roe v. Wade in 1973. National statistics indicate that an overwhelming number of Americans still consider themselves to be Christians. Catholics and Christians are exterminating themselves to the point that the United States must import tens of millions of immigrants to fill the population void. The same dynamic is occurring in Europe, which is dying off because of abortion, contraception, and sterilization. The ultimate irony of all this is that abortion is illegal in most Islamic countries, which Christians view as inherently evil. The Blessed Mother warned that God will punish the world because of this abomination and cast the unrepentant into the fires of Hell. What do we do? It seems like we need to take instructions from the Jewish people on how to remember our victims. Christians must end the silence and openly talk about the holocausts others have inflicted on us and the culture of death holocaust of abortion we have inflicted upon ourselves. Christ’s followers must make memorials to honor these victims. We need movies, documentaries, radio programs, and talk shows. We must de-fund organizations, corporations, and media which either mock, trivialize, ignore, or omit the suffering of Christians and the unborn. For obvious reasons, the Jews do not want humanity to forget what the Nazis did to them in the Shoah, otherwise it will happen again. It is critical that Christians, who adhere to the culture of life, apply the same logic. The only difference between the violence of the Shoah and the violence against Christians and the unborn is that Catholics and other Christians have let the world forget our suffering and the suffering of the aborted. It not only will happen again, it is occurring right now. Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI identified that the Nazi persecution of the Jews was monstrous. They wrote and spoke repeatedly about the sanctity of all human life. Let us honor Christ and His Church in respect for life by remembering the terror inflicted by Satan’s followers on the unborn, Christians, Jews, Moslems, and anyone else who truly thirsts for Christ’s truth. JMJ