Today’s D&C has an article about yet another interfaith collaboration in the Rochester area. This latest one involved the presentation of a program called The Two Thousand Year Road to the Holocaust. The presentation took place at Temple B’rith Kodesh in Brighton. There are several aspects of this presentation that bear examination.

First of all, the presentation was part of a series of talks that has been spearheaded by Morris Wortman, one of Rochester’s most prominent abortionists. Wortman is not exactly shy and retiring when it comes to his advocacy for abortion. He has come out publicly a number of times in support of taking the lives of the unborn. In fact, because he is such a notorious abortionist, there is a pro-life Rosary prayed every Friday in front of his clinic. His clinic is also the destination for the annual Good Friday Stations of the Cross in Reparation for Abortion .

What is especially galling about this latest interfaith gathering was the participation of two local Catholic deacons. Both Deacon Thomas Driscoll and Deacon Anthony Sciolino were presenters at this forum. Here is what Deacon Sciolino had to say about the event:

“Something then went terribly wrong for Christianity during the Holocaust. And what resulted from the obvious disconnect between Christian belief and Christian behavior was the worst catastrophe in human history. Jews ponder the Holocaust and rightly ask: Where was God? Christians must to do the same and, in addition, ask: Where was the Church?”

So, there you have it-an interfaith event, spearheaded by Rochester’s most prominent abortionist, at which one of the DOR’s deacons seems to blame Christianity and the Catholic Church for the Holocaust.

Many pro-life activists have characterized the taking of innocent life in the womb as the “abortion holocaust”. How unfortunate that these two deacons fail to see the irony of their collaboration with Dr. Wortman on this project.