Christians must resist injustice, Pope says at Chrism Mass
April 01, 2010
Celebrating the annual Chrism Mass with the priests of the Rome diocese on Holy Thursday, Pope Benedict XVI emphasized the need for Christians to resist injustice and to struggle for the cause of truth.
The faithful should imitate the courage of the early Christian martyrs, he said, and "not accept an injustice that is elevated in law" such as legal abortion.
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Posted by: frjpharrington3912 -
Apr. 02, 2010 1:02 PM ET USA
Bernhard Liehtenberg and Karl Leisner, two German priests, were condemned and sent to the concentration camps because they refused to be silenced by the state in speaking out in defense of religious freedom and against the injustices perpetuated by the Nazis on the oppressed non-Aryan Christians, for the persecuted Jews, and for prisoners in the concentration camps. At their beatification in Germany, 1996, Pope John Paul II cited their example as a call to become "co-workers in the truth."
