From time to time we hear from readers, of all persuasions, who express strong feelings for a variety of different reasons. Recently, we received word from someone who was so impressed by the comments of Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston that he proposed a change in the liturgy with the inclusion of a new creed.

As you may remember, the Cardinal reportedly said, the day before Ash Wednesday, that the Shoah, or Jewish Holocaust, was "the greatest crime in human history." Before we proceed, we must say, in all fairness, that some people may be troubled by this statement. Specifically, the source of this concern could be that in the Cardinal’s mind, with American Jewish leaders looking on, the killing of an estimated 6 million Jews during World War II was greater than the slaughter of 11 million Christians during the Roman Empire, or greater than the killing by starvation of 14 million Ukrainian Christians by the Soviets during the 1930s, or the slaughter and persecution of millions of non-Jews by the Nazis, or the massacre of tens of millions of Christians who died at the hands of persecutors during the Twentieth Century. And, apparently, in the mind of the good Cardinal, the Shoah was a greater crime than the killing of the Son of God nearly 2,000 years ago. These things can legitimately cause concern in the minds of many of the Faithful.

But be all that as it may, and without any comment one way or another, here is a suggestion submitted by our afore-mentioned kindly reader. The reader proposed that the following be said by the faithful on a daily basis, or at least during every Mass: