Adam, where are you?
A friend posted this very moving teaching from the Holy Father on Holocaust Memorial Day last year. The text is also available on the Vatican Website here . The text is deeply moving and shows a powerful exposition of the teaching of the corporate responsibility of Adam and how Scripture helps us to understand this important reality— well worth reflecting on. --------- << “Adam, where are you?” (cf. Gen 3:9). Where are you, o man? What have you come to? In this place, this memorial of the Shoah, we hear God’s question echo once more: “Adam, where are you?” This question is charged with all the sorrow of a Father who has lost his child. The Father knew the risk of freedom; he knew that his children could be lost… yet perhaps not even the Father could imagine so great a fall, so profound an abyss! Here, before the boundless tragedy of the Holocaust, That cry – “Where are you?” – echoes like a faint voice in an unfathomable abyss… Adam, who are you? I no longer recognise ...