The dead of Auschwitz should have brought upon us a total transformation; nothing should have been allowed to remain as it was, neither among our people nor in our churches. Above all, not in the churches.
Johann Baptist MetzCertainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.
Johann Baptist MetzHistory is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."
Johann Baptist Metz