T. Roberts, NCReporter
We know that people of many religious stripes, Catholics included,
are involved in various ways on every side of the current dispute. Maybe
that's where we should be, on every side, not to exacerbate or further
inflame but to do what we can to tamp down the ancient hatreds and the
inclinations to violence.
Sounds all too familiar.
At the same time Catholic rescuers were helping Jews, some of those same people were also helping Nazis. The Catholic Church worked to win clemency for convicted Nazi war criminals after the war. “The justification given for aid to Nazi war criminals was Christian love and mercy,” says Brown-Fleming, whose research focuses on this effort.
