Our century, however, has called for the annihilation of the Jewish people. Because their destruction is a direct attack on all men of conscience, all men of good will must reflect on the conditions that allowed it to pass. But still more is here. The Jews remain the moral heart of man. If we are to share a single messianic hope as the sons of Abraham, we must share a common history and witness a single truth.
Christians have to purge from their past all that threatens that truth.
At the close of this century the Church is calling the Jews to Christ. If they are to hear us, our hearts must be pure. Samuel Casey Carter is executive editor of Crisis.