Even as bystanders we feel and are complicit in the collective inhumanities, of the Holocaust, the Cambodian killing-fields, Stalin’s and Mao’s exterminations or the Rwanda genocide. In all these atrocities the perpetrators and victims were our brothers and sisters. Co-responsibility is more than the contagion of shame and guilt. It is the influence of the real unity of the whole human family as one Body, past and future. This oneness is a transcendent wonder and also excruciating. (The pain of the Cross was so great the Romans invented a new word for it – excruciare.) It is painful to be one with the perpetrator and the victim, but we breathe the same air. Our terrestrial unity transcends our eccentric planet, beyond every horizon of the universe.
The real unity of the whole human family
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