There are two related questions that arise: Are we just voyeurs in the sex abuse crisis? Are we just voyeurs in the response to 9/11?
The latter is of interest to me. I am a Knight of Columbus, 4th degree, pgk pfn. Over the last two years I tried to raise interest in a sumbolic act on 9/11, using it as a symbolic date on which to address the pervasiveness of violence in human society. The indifference has been thundering.
The standard operative method to deal with violence of all kinds is to “let it go.” But it does not let us go, any more than the lingering effects of sin lets us go.
I live within site of a US Civil War battlefield. In the next town south from me is a historical marker for a notorious lynching of a century ago. Further south is a small river into which bodies of dead children were dumped some decades ago. Further south, a public place in which a terrorist act killed someone.
By the side of the road I regularly find small impromptu shrines — they appear to mark the place at which an automobile event caused one or more deaths. I have seen similiar shrines that mark violence and death from guns.
Am I overly sensitive?
