Pope: Nazi death camps ‘extreme symbols of evil’

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ROME (JTA) – Pope Benedict XVI called Nazi death camps “extreme symbols of evil” and hell on earth.

Speaking Sunday to the faithful gathered at his summer home at Castel Gandolfo near Rome, the pope made his remarks in a blessing in which he recalled Catholic saints celebrated in the liturgy this month.

They include two saints who were killed at Auschwitz: St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Catholic priest killed there in August 1941, and St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, better known as Edith Stein.

Stein was a German Jewish convert to Catholicism who became a nun but was deported to Auschwitz in early August 1942 because of her Jewish origins. She was believed killed there on Aug. 9.

“All saints, especially martyrs, bear witness to God, who is love,” the pope said. “The Nazi camps, like all extermination camps, can be considered extreme symbols of evil, of the hell that opens on earth when man forgets God.”
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Chris.
 
The Pope, of course, is completely correct in this, but we here in America have our own death camps - they are called abortion clinics. And if Obama’s health care bill passes, we will have death camps for the other end of life as well. As horrendous and evil as the Nazi death camps were, abortion around the world almost makes the Nazis seem like child play. 13 million abortions in China each year alone, and that only includes surgical abortions. Who knows how many chemical abortions there are.

I believe there is more evil in the world now than there has been at any time in mankind’s history. The Nazi death camps were only the beginning.

Mary
 
I found the comments at the bottom rather interesting. There is a point that the posters made that actually makes sense. The Holy Father’s statement does not mention the Nazis by name. I understand that they ran the death camps. The camps did not run themselves. But the Church has to put as much distance between herself and the death camps. The best way to do so is by making it clear that they were the product of a sick political ideology, not a religious ideology.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
 
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