Friday, October 30, 2020

An impressive video clip produced in 2019 shows what’s going on in Estonian politics now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz3EijiCPYc

It reminds me what Pope Francis writes in Fratelli Tutti (unit 86): I sometimes wonder why, in light of this, it took so long for the Church unequivocally to condemn slavery and various forms of violence. Today, with our developed spirituality and theology, we have no excuses. Still, there are those who appear to feel encouraged or at least permitted by their faith to support varieties of narrow and violent nationalism, xenophobia and contempt, and even the mistreatment of those who are different. Faith, and the humanism it inspires, must maintain a critical sense in the face of these tendencies, and prompt an immediate response whenever they rear their head.