Keywords by David Yonke

Mayoral candidates Mike Bell and Keith Wilkowski at WLMB-TV studios for the live forum on faith and values. My back is to the camera.

I can relax a little today after my two back-to-back public speaking appearances this week, one on TV and the other at a restaurant.
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My on-air stress test came Tuesday night when I served as moderator for a live TV political forum on faith and values with Toledo's two mayoral candidates Mike Bell and Keith Wilkowski.
It was a stretch for me, although I have had some live television experience when I appeared on Court TV, CNN, MSNBC, and local channels during the Father Gerald Robinson trial.
Serving as "moderator" was a whole different ballgame. I had to create all the questions, which was very delicate and time consuming when you think about the issues involved such as homosexuality and marriage, abortion, the divinity of Jesu, the authority of the Bible, gambling, etc.
Then, during the forum, I had to keep one eye on the clock while paying close attention to the candidates' comments and try to keep the show moving along and giving equal time for responses.
Then toward the end, the trick was to close on the exact second -- or else. There is no leeway on live TV. The floor producer held up notes when there was 10 minutes and then 5 minutes to go.
At 5 minutes, I told the candidates we had time for one more question and then closing remarks. I got the countdown for 1 minute. It looked like we were winding down just fine and then I get a signal we have 1 minute left. I don't know where that last minute materialized from, but it all worked out.
The forum is being rebroadcast on WLMB-TV (Channel 40) a number of times before the Nov. 3 general election. I personally find it hard to see myself on TV but I'm saving it to watch at a later date, when I have the nerve.
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On another note, I gave a talk last night at Ski's Restaurant about the Gerald Robinson case. This is the restaurant run by Jack Sparagowski, a Robinson supporter. He's been bringing in speakers as part of a series for the Polish American Council and asked me to talk. I like Jack and we've had some productive discussions about the priest's murder conviction. Last month, I went to a talk there by one of the jurors who was basically torn apart by the pro-Robinson crowd.
Because of the way the crowd manhandled the juror, I was afraid I might be walking into a lion's den last night. But it all was very civil and polite.
The crowd was probably 50-50, Sparagowski said, between Robinson supporters and those who think he's guilty.
People asked great questions at the end and we had to cut it off after 2 hours even though some people still had questions.
I do believe they'll be talking about this case 100 years from now and probably beyond.
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One Interesting moment came when a woman in the audience said she's known Father Robinson for 30 years and cannot believe the priest has a violent streak in his body and that he was too frail to have strangled and stabbed Sister Margaret Ann Pahl.
Another woman in the audience quickly raised her hand and asked to respond to that statement. Obviously upset by her memories, she said she had worked with Father Robinson and that she had seen him lose his temper a number of times and she called him a misogynist who hates women.
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People had a lot of questions and I found that most of them are poorly informed on the case but only knew bits and pieces of the truth and the evidence. I tried to answer their questions as honestly and straightforwardly as I could.
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I really don't know why I agreed to do these two talks during one of the busiest weeks of the year for me. I guess the reason I did them was to help inform people. I thought the TV forum would give voters a different perspective on the candidates because the focus was on their faith and values. I spoke to what I thought would be a pro-Robinson crowd because I felt they haven't heard the whole story and if I could give them some new information it might be helpful.

I certainly didn't do it for the money. The only payment I received for both nights was a book on George Washington and an invitation to enjoy a Polish meal with my wife sometime.

Discovery Channel's "Forensics: You Decide" program will feature the Gerald Robinson case when it airs next Monday, Oct. 12, The TV crew was in Toledo this spring and interviewed a number of experts for the program.
The concept is that the program presents evidence for and against the defendant, splitting the time about equally, and then closes with the actual verdict. Producers said they really try to give equal weight to the prosecution and defense so the viewer gets a chance to weigh the evidence and make up their minds.
I was interviewed for hours for this program and am curious how the show turns out.
It will be broadcast at 10 p.m. on Monday on the Discovery ID channel (Not Discovery, but one of its subsidiary stations).

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Tuesday not to hear Gerald Robinson's appeal.
This is not a surprise, considering the High Court only hears about 1 percent of the cases submitted to it. And the court only deals with constitutional issues with broad legal applications.
Yet it is one more serious setback in the priest's efforts to have his murder conviction overturned.
There are still more legal efforts under way, but Robinson's options are getting narrower with every court ruling. And he has lost every legal bid at every step of the way, starting with his conviction in May, 2006.
Since a jury found the Toledo diocesean priest guilty of murdering Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, Father Robinson lost an appeal to the Ohio 6th District Court of Appeals, he lost his appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court, and now he has lost in the U.S. Supreme Court.
In addition, Robinson has lost two other efforts in his ongoing legal fight seeking to match crime scene DNA with men his attorneys said might have been the actual killer -- one a deceased Catholic priest who worked alongside him at the hospital and the other a dead serial killer from Detroit.
We'll see how things go with his amended petition for post-conviction relief in Common Pleas Court. I know his attorney John Donahue is convinced Robinson is innocent and will take every action he can to set his client free, short of a jailbreak.
As I've said many times, if he is innocent I certainly would not want him serving time in prison. If he is guilty, however, then he belongs behind bars for this most heinous crime. So far the judges have not seen any reason to overturn his conviction and the 71-year-old priest remains in Hocking Correctional Facility in southern Ohio, with his first parole hearing scheduled for March, 2021.
Blade reporter Erica Blake did an excellent job reporting on the Supreme Court ruling. You can read it in the Blade here.
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There are a handful of people out there who keep telling me that I'll have to "apologize" someday when a court overturns Robinson's conviction.
I understand their frustration and the tendency to blame the messenger. This is a delusion that is as old as human history. Their anger is misplaced, however. I have only been reporting the facts, and it has not been the news media's fault in general or any individual reporter's fault in particular that the facts have not gone the way the Catholic priest and his supporters would have liked.
If there ever is a favorable ruling in Robinson's case, I and my colleagues in the media will swiftly and eagerly report that with the biggest headlines and the most prominent spots in the paper and TV news.
But for apologies? I don't think so.
Meanwhile, the odds of a conviction being overturned are getting slimmer.
As John Donahue, Robinson's diligent defense attorney, said, it will be a "miracle" if the priest's conviction is ever overturned.
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Please ask me if the Vatican has laicized, or defrocked, Father Robinson. To my knowledge, he remains a Catholic priest.
Toledo Bishop Leonard Paul Blair barred Robinson from ministry, meaning he cannot present himself as a priest to the public. But technically is is still an ordained priest in the Toledo Catholic Diocese and can celebrate Mass -- but only for himself.

President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize today, an announcement that stunned most Nobel watchers.
I'm stunned as well.
Don't you think it's a little premature?
The reasoning given by the Nobel committee was all based on things the president plans to accomplish -- reduce global warming, ease tensions with the Muslim world, and promote bilateral rather than unilateral diplomacy, for example.
All well and good, but there is still a long way to go on each one of these points.
Amazingly, Obama was nominated for the peace prize just two weeks after being sworn in as president, and receives the honor after only six months in the White House.
Giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize at this stage in his term as president shows the power of his charisma and the global appeal of his campaign promises for hope and for change. The world is in a mess now and everyone is desperately searching for someone to fix things.
Now they're giving the most prestigious honor in the world to a man based on his promises.
I hope he delivers the goods and proves worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Janet and I were relaxing on the beach the other day when a total stranger walks up and says: "You two look like professionals -- professionals at relaxation!"
Janet said, "Thank you, that's the nicest compliment I've gotten in a while."
I don't know why we looked any more "professional" than the hundreds of other people on the beach but it was funny. We do love the sun, sand and surf.
Janet can never get too much sun and being on the beach is the most relaxing thing in the world for her.
I enjoy it, too, but not as much as the queen of the beach.
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Being at the beach is one of the best ways of letting the stresses of life disappear for a while. I usually have a good book to read and put on some suntan lotion (15 spf) and have a cooler full of soft drinks and bottled water at the ready.
Sometimes I put my iPod on low volume, other times I just soak up the sound of the waves and the birds.
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Yesterday, we all went to a different beach and my brother Rick and I were sitting at water's edge in low-slung beach chairs. A guy walks by and says, "You two need to have your picture taken and send it to everyone back home with the caption, 'It doesn't get any better than this.'"

So I received two compliments in two days about my prodigious abilities at vacationing.

Will someone please nominate me for the Nobel Prize in Relaxation?

OK, so I slacked off a few weeks from my blog, but it's only because I took a pretty long vacation -- 2 1/2 weeks of travelin' fun.
While I was gone, there was plenty of news on Father Gerald Robinson.
* First, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal on his murder conviction. (He still has a petition pending in Lucas County Common Pleas Court, and also pending is a civil lawsuit filed by a Toledo woman claiming Robinson abused her as a child in satanic rituals.)
* Second, Discovery ID broadcast the hour-long program "Forensics: You Decide," featuring the Robinson case on Monday, Oct. 12, instead of the planned November or December date.
* Third, Father Robinson's interview with a Columbus Dispatch reporter was published while I was off. I read it and watched the video, and I have two things to say:
One, there's no real news in the article except for the fact that it's Robinson's first and, so far, only prison interview. He didn't say much.
Second, obviously I would like to interview the priest. But I've asked and his attorney has said no. I can't really blame him. I would not gloss over important details or let the priest sidestep the tough questions as the Dispatch did.
But I thought it was great that Robinson granted an interview and I am glad I had a chance to not only read his comments but to watch a video of the interview.
Here is a link to the Dispatch story and video.

To follow up on my previous post, my wife and I had a nice time visiting relatives for a week and then taking a Caribbean cruise with 10 friends from church the second week.
I also went to see U2 for a second time on the band's 360-degree tour -- in Tampa on Oct. 9. I had seen them in Chicago on Sept. 13. The show is a spectacle not to be missed.
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I had never been on a cruise ship before, except for a one-day trip on the Sea Escape out of Tampa. That didn't count.
I had some concerns about cruising but they all turned out to be non-issues. It was a spectacularly fun trip with more events, activities, entertainment, food, and sight-seeing than I have ever experienced in a short time.
The people who run the ship are professionals at making vacations memorable. We traveled on the Royal Caribbean ship Enchantment of the Seas, with about 2,200 people aboard. Everything went so well it was like a dream come true.
We went to the Mayan ruins in Tulum, Mexico, then to a private beach in Tulum that was one of the most beautiful spots on earth.
We also snorkeled on the barrier reef of Belize, which is the supposedly the best barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere. I believe it. It was awesome.
I'll post some pics in the near future.
Janet and I enjoyed our 29th anniversary on Sunday and celebrated with our friends on the last night of our voyage.
A cruise is an amazing way to relax and I hope we can take more trips like that in the future.

I'm below average.
That probably doesn't surprise you...
But the specific area I'm speaking of is shoe ownership.

The nonprofit group Soles4Souls sent out an email this morning saying its latest survey shows that the average American owns 13 pairs of shoes.

I guess I'm not that crazy about shoes.

But here's the breakdown on America's shoe obsession/possession:
19 percent own 2 to 4 pairs
40 percent own 5 to 10 pairs
24 percent own 11 to 20
11 percent own 21 to 40
5 percent own 41 plus

and 1 percent own 1 pair

Souls4Soles calculates that with 300 million people in the USA, there are 3.9 billion pairs of shoes sitting in our closets.
Meanwhile, there are 300 million children worldwide who do not have a single pair of shoes to wear.
If you want to do something about it, just click here. Soles4Souls has made it easy to organize a shoe drive or just donate some extra shoes to the world's neediest kids and adults.

Got this today in an email from ABC... I think the Scientologists are a particularly interesting sect. They also are very tight-lipped and generally avoid the media.
I have no information or insights on the allegations Nightline says will be leveled on the program tonight, but I think it will be interesting to hear from the former high-ranking insiders. -- David

Former Scientologists Level Accusations

High-Level Members Who Left the Church Say Leader David Miscavige Hit Subordinates; Church Denies Accusations

Since its inception in the 1950s, the Church of Scientology has rarely been far from controversy. And now some senior insiders who have left the church are leveling disturbing accusations against the current leader, David Miscavige.

Marty Rathbun, Amy Scobee, Bruce Hines and Mike Rinder each dedicated more than 20 years to the Church of Scientology, as members of the Sea Organization, or Sea Org, the equivalent of the church's clergy.

They tell co-anchor Martin Bashir they left in part because the 49-year-old leader, Miscavige, struck subordinates numerous times and encouraged others to do the same.

In an interview with Bashir, scientology spokesman Tommy Davis vehemently denies that David Miscavige ever hit anyone and says the accusers are lying in an attempt to discredit Miscavige and to justify their own bad behavior within the church, which he says led to their dismissal.

Watch the full story on "Nightline" on Thursday, October 22nd and Friday, October 23rd.

I was driving to work this morning minding my own business, listening to Todd Hostetler praying over the radio (on YES-FM) when I heard a bang and felt a thump.

The driver of a Chrysler Concord ran a red light, hit a Camaro in the lane next to me, and the Camaro hit my Saab.

Aargggh.

I pulled over and the Camaro driver was still sitting in his car. The Concord driver got out right away. I went over to the Camaro and he was okay, just couldn't start his car, which was in the middle of a busy intersection.

It was raining and chilly, gray skies and leaves all over the ground.

We pushed the Camaro to the side of the road.

Nobody was hurt. That's the main thing. The driver who ran the red light was 83-years-old and said it was the first time he's ever been in an accident.

My passenger door was pushed in. It looks like the rear passenger door might also be damaged slightly. My poor ol' Saab, I love that car. Looking at the damage is painful but really it's nothing much. Ugly, but the door closes and the car is drivable.

Toledo police responded within half an hour, God bless 'em. The 83-year-old driver was cited for running a red light. Now I have to deal with insurance companies and body shops.

It's just another hassle. As my dad used to say, "It's the vicissitudes of life."

One oddity about this: I was hit by someone who ran a red light at the same exact spot on Dec. 31, 1999. I remember it well because it was New Year's Eve for the Y2K craziness and I was on my way to work a holiday shift.

Maybe I should find another route to work?

One of the underrated gifts in this world is the ability to make people laugh.

When I was a kid growing up in New York, I used to watch The Soupy Sales Show and laugh out loud. His slapstick humor and his cast of characters -- White Fang, Black Tooth, and Pookie, among others - were simply hilarious.
It was nothing deep, there was nothing to ponder. You just watched and laughed.

Sad to see that Soupy died last night at age 83. (His real name, by the way, was Milton Supman.)

The New York Times quoted Soupy as saying he threw about 20,000 pies during his TV days.

In his 2001 memoir “Soupy Sez!” he supplied the precise ingredients for successful pie-throwing:

“You can use whipped cream, egg whites or shaving cream, but shaving cream is much better because it doesn’t spoil. And no tin plates. The secret is you just can’t push it and shove it in somebody’s face. It has to be done with a pie that has a lot of crust so that it breaks up into a thousand pieces when it hits you.”

Soupy was in Toledo in 2004 and was definitely not in good shape. I didn't go to the show but several people who were in the audience told me they couldn't understand a word he said, and his interviewer would repeat each of his lines as sort of an interpreter.

Soupy was a born entertainer and apparently he couldn't resist the spotlight even when he should have passed on the offer. But give him an A for effort when he was 78, and lots of extra credit for the decades of inspired nuttiness.

I watched Nightline's show on Scientology last night. It basically repeated the allegations that were reported in the St. Petersburg Times in June that the sect's leader hit and slapped his subordinates (at least the show acknowledged they were following up a St. Pete Times story).

The church or sect denied all the charges.

It's hard to tell what's what in a "he said-she said" scenario with no documentation. Especially when the people raising the allegations are disgruntled or former employees / members of an organization.

The former Scientologists seemed sincere when they described being hit by chairman David Miscavige. But a spokesman dismissed the claims as nonsense.

One particularly bizarre allegation was that Miscavige had a Scientology leader's outfit tailor-made for his dog, and when subordinates did not salute the mutt Miscavige would belt them. The ex-Scientologists also claimed that if the dog barked at them, Miscavige would assume they were up to no good.

The church spokesman laughed off those claims.

I think there's a part 2 tonight... but don't go out of your way for it.
Better to read the St. Pete Times stories. Here's a link.

You love Facebook; I love Facebook. But how much time do we spend reading about people's lives or posting updates about our adventures on Facebook?

Way too much, apparently.

When it comes to time spent on Facebook, Levine Breaking News reported a scary statistic today on how it all adds up:

More than 8 billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day, Facebook executive Mike Schroepfer said in a talk Wednesday at the Web 2.0 Summit. Some 2 billion pieces of content are shared every week, and 2 billion photos are uploaded each month -- 1.2 million served per second on a "peak day," he said.

Five billion calls to Facebook's application program interface (API) were made on Tuesday. It's huge: Schroepfer, Facebook's vice president of engineering, was focused on talking about the challenges of scaling a social network to the more than 300 million active users it has today.

Just for fun, I took out my calculator and found that 8 billion minutes is equal to 15,220 years, or more than 200 average lifetimes.

Last week, Norway's government published the skatteliste, or tax list, reporting exactly how much every Norwegian citizen earned and how much they have in assets.
"Isn't this how a social democracy ought to work, with openness, transparency, and social equality ideals?" wrote a Norwegian columnist.
Some decried the publication of the list, saying it helps criminals target people and leads to schoolground taunts like "My dad (or mom) makes more money than your dad (or mom)."
What do you think would happen in America if the IRS published such a list?

It's unthinkable, really.

And to be honest, although it would definitely be extremely interesting, I'm not sure such "transparency" would make our nation any stronger or add much to our social system.

But you've got to love the Scandinavians' openness. They don't worship money. They have a healthy outlook on life in most regards. They are so much more fit than Americans. They eat healthfully, they exercise regularly. They provide health care for all.
And of course, they are taxed to the max. About 50 percent of their income goes to the government.
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When I was in Denmark a few years ago, we were walking down the main pedestrian shopping street in Copenhagen and at 5 p.m., as thousands of people walked by, the shops started to close up for the night.
The owners didn't care that they were "losing business." They and their employees have lives to live. They shut the doors and went home.
Would that ever happen in America? No way, Jose. The shops would stay open until the crowds dwindled (the owners wouldn't be there late, of course, but they'd make sure their low-paid clerks were minding the store).

One night we went to a social gathering and I talked to people for hours and NOBODY asked me what I did for a living. We talked about all kinds of things and it was a great evening but after a while I realized that nobody cared about me in view of my career, they were interested in me as a person. It was a shocking realization and one that I found oddly reassuring.
Yes, there are people in this world who are not obsessed with money, careers, and material things.

And of course, the Swedes are the ones who build Saabs. God bless 'em for that!
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On the downside, Scandinavians are notoriously non-religious. They have created a comfortable society and have not left much room for God.
The Christians in Denmark and elsewhere in Scandinavia are really fired up and enthusiastic about God and faith and spiritual matters. For most others, God and church are non-issues. I believe only about 2 percent of the people attend church.
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Aside from the lack of religion and/or spirituality, I think we Americans could learn a lot from the Norwegians and other Scandinavians.
Will we ever have our income and wealth available on a list for all to see?
No way. That is never going to happen in the good ol' USA.
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The Norwegian website NRK.no has a link where you can type in a person's name and it calls up their tax data. But the site is in Norwegian. For fun, google has a translation mode but the translation isn't quite right.
For example, today's headlines include such bizarre syntax as, word for word:

"Doe killed -- hotel will millionbot"

"Young boys are suddenly big neck muscles"

and

"These taxis are not men take."

Don't ask me, I have no clue what these stories are about!

This is a very interesting ruling. By the way, I'm not picking on the Scientologists, it's only coincidence that a Nightline program featured the religion last week and now a French court issues this historic ruling today. -- David

c.2009 New York Times News Service=
PARIS — The French branch of the Church of Scientology was convicted of fraud and fined nearly $900,000 on Tuesday by a Paris court. But the judges did not ban the church, as the prosecution had demanded, saying that a change in the law prevented such an action for fraud. The church said it would appeal.
The verdict was among the most important in several years to involve the group, which is registered as a religion in the United States but has no similar legal protection in France. It is considered a sect here, and says it has some 45,000 adherents, out of some 12 million worldwide. It was the first time here that the church itself had been tried and convicted, as opposed to individual members.
The case was brought by two former members who said they were pushed into paying large sums of money in the 1990s, pressed to sign up for expensive “purification courses” and harassed to buy a variety of vitamins and other forms of pharmaceuticals, plus electronic tests to measure spiritual progress. One woman said she had been pressured into spending more than $30,000.
The major fines were rendered against the Scientology Celebrity Center in Paris and a Scientology bookstore. Six group leaders were convicted of fraud, with four given suspended sentences of 10 months to two years. One of them, the group’s leader in France, Alain Rosenberg, was given a two-year suspended sentence and fined $44,700. Two others were given only fines, of $1,490 and $2,980.
The judges said the individuals had avoided jail in part because of efforts by the church “to change its practices.”
There have been other cases brought against individual Scientologists in France, but this is the first time the organization was charged for its methods of functioning.
Olivier Morice, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said: “This is a historic decision. It’s the first time in France that the entity of the Church of Scientology is condemned for fraud as an organized gang,” as opposed to simply individual members. He said that the tribunal “expressed its will to maintain the structure of Scientology in order to make it easier to control,” adding that “it gave this decision a national and international dimension so that potential victims can be warned of the methods of Scientology.”
Catherine Picard, who runs an association to help victims of sects, called the verdict “subtle enough and intelligent,” saying that it would help control Scientology in France, and expressed the hope that the state would be “more vigilant.” She said that “Scientology can no longer hide behind freedom of conscience.”
A spokeswoman for the church, Agnes Bron, called the verdict “an Inquisition for modern times.”
The Church of Scientology is based in Los Angeles. It was founded in 1954 by the writer L. Ron Hubbard. Belgium, Germany and other European countries have been criticized by the State Department for labeling Scientology a cult or sect and enacting laws to restrict its operations.

Dorothy Day was co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement who devoted her life to serving the poor and fighting for social justice.

In November 1933, she submitted an essay to the Catholic magazine America, criticizing the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany and linking it to attacks on Jews in New York.

She wrote this while Hitler was still only the chancellor in a multiparty cabinet — two years before he combined the office of chancellor and president to become Führer and almost four years before Germany adopted the Nuremburg Laws that stripped German Jews of their citizenship and human rights.

America rejected the manuscript at the time and it was only recently discovered in Day's archives. The magazine has just published it in its November 2009 edition, with an introduction by Father Charles Gallagher, S.J.

I've always admired Day, and at the same time I've long wondered why Americans didn't act earlier against Hitler.
I've visited several Holocaust museums -- including the one in D.C. and Farmington Hills, Mich. -- that display news reports from U.S. newspapers in the early to mid 1930s documenting Germany's steadily increasing oppression and persecution of Jews.
Day's rejected essay is further evidence that some Americans saw the threat early and tried to warn others, to no avail.

Her full essay is available online. Here's a link.
I've included a few excerpts below:

From Dorothy Day's 1933 essay, Our Brothers, the Jews:

We believe that Hitler owes his success to the fact that it
is easier to arouse a people against something concrete like
a race than against an idea. It is not just the idea of materialism
that the German people are fighting. They have made
the Jew as a race the scapegoat. They have fastened on it the
ills of present-day society. They have blamed Jews for defeat
during the war, for the inflation after the war, for the present
ills of the capitalist system. And even though individuals of
the race, even though large masses of the race are guilty of
the sins with which they are charged, the animus aroused
against them is singular in that it is not an animus against
the evils attendant on their actions, but against the Jews
themselves.
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The persecution in Germany is actually a
persecution of the Jews as a race. A stiff-necked generation.
Not because they are Communists especially. Not because
they are materialists. Many of them are not Communists
and some of the most religious-minded men are Jews. But it
is all Jews who are being fought and excoriated. It is the old
pogrom spirit being revived. It is comparable only to the
persecution of the Negro because of his race. It seems to be
easy to arouse people to a concrete hatred of race. It is easy
for children to fall into contemptuous attitudes because of
race differences. And I believe that Hitler could never have
gotten the following he has if he had not given to his fellow
Germans someone, not something, to hate. It is a hatred
primitive, fundamental, base.
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The other day we had a German Protestant livery stable
man, giving us the use of a horse and wagon to move a
Jewish family, and five Catholic unemployed men assisting
their brother the Jew in getting transferred.

It is a situation which typifies the point I wish to make,
that we are all creatures of God and members or potential
members of the Mystical Body. This is something which
those Catholics who bait the Jews lose sight of.