Francis said International Holocaust Remembrance Day was needed “to recover our humanity, to recover our human understanding of reality and to overcome so many deplorable forms of apathy towards our neighbor.”
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By News Desk | January 29, 2018
Speaking to participants in an international conference on anti-Semitism, Pope Francis said that the challenge is to overcome not only outright hatred but also the more widespread problem of indifference.
Francis explained that “it is indifference that paralyzes and impedes us from doing what is right even when we know that it is right.”
The Pontiff cited the poignant question from Scripture: “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Francis said International Holocaust Remembrance Day was needed “to recover our humanity, to recover our human understanding of reality and to overcome so many deplorable forms of apathy towards our neighbor.”
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