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Holocaust

  • If You are Anti-Semitic, You are Anti-Catholic/Christian

    IT MAKES SENSE TO ME By Larry Peterson I have come to realize that I have changed. I am no longer the same cradle Catholic that espoused the brotherhood of Judaism. I am not the same because the words I was using then were never really heartfelt. I did believe them but I did not understand. Nor…

  • Executed for Refusing to Say “Yes”*

    IT MAKES SENSE TO ME  By Larry Peterson The pages of Catholic/Christian history are filled with countless names of those who came from virtual anonymity and proceeded to leave an indelible mark in our lives. St. Teresa of Calcutta is a prime example. Many have also reached the eternal heights of spiritual greatness but are…

  • Sara Salkahazi…Another Holocaust Victim Who Will Always Be a Shining Star*

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson Embedded among the thousands of shining stars who have been elevated to the rank of Canonized Saint in the Catholic Church are those I call, “hidden gems”. These are the  chosen folks more or less unknown to most Catholics. For me, when I decide to start looking for…

  • Krakow: The Pope and the Holocaust; I Am Proudly & Humbly Connected to Both*

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson Mom died from leukemia way back in 1961. She had just turned 40 and, at the time, there were no cures, no chemo and no bone-marrow transplants. She was dead within six months of diagnosis. We lived in the Bronx in a five floor walk-up. Grandma lived up…

  • Reality Check: Does Having Judeo-Christian Values Make You a Candidate for Genocide?

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson The words–annihilation, extermination, carnage, and slaughter, to name a few, are synonyms for the word “Holocaust”. The word “genocide”not invented until 1941, fits right in there. But none of those words bring us to the core of what those words truly represent. They are the by-product of the malevolent,…

  • Meet the Only Nun Sentenced to Death by a Nazi Court: Her Crime? "Hanging" Crucifixes*

    IT MAKES SENSE TO ME By Larry Peterson *An edited version of this article appeared in Aleteia on April 12, 2016. Just imagine being arrested on Ash Wednesday for the crime of “hanging Crucifixes”. I cannot imagine how I would handle it. Maybe I would have taken the Crucifixes down. Honestly, I do not know. Helena Kafka,…

  • Massacring Children; 2000 Years and Counting

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson Since I find myself still filled with the wondrous spirit of the Christmas season I have decided that this will be my final blog post for 2015. I am simply doing everything I can to keep that upbeat feeling a bit longer. I don’t care. I like it…

  • The "Shameful Silence"—It Honors Evil

    IT MAKES SENSE TO ME by Larry Peterson                                                          “Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.”   Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran theologian in Germany…

  • We Christians and Jews are Bound Together by Spiritual DNA

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson When I was growing up in the Bronx we lived on the third floor  in a five story walk-up on Sherman Ave. There were eight of us in a four room apartment. In the apartment below lived  Leo and Sophie Rabinowitz.  Quite often, in the middle of the…

  • From Anti-Semitism to Anti-Christism; The 21st Century Holocaust is Upon Us

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson Recently the Anti-Defamation League conducted a global survey asking questions about the Holocaust. Unbelievably, two-thirds of the respondents (mostly younger people) had NEVER heard of the Holocaust and, for those that had, many did not believe the history and suggested that it was simply exaggerated. The rejection of…