Just finished watching the story of Irena Sendler with the family. Tears in our eyes. Irena was a Polish Roman Catholic social worker that saved 2,500 children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and resettling then with Christian families. The Nazis caught and tortured her. She escaped and survived to be 98. She saved a list of which children were sent to which families in a jar. After the war she worked tirelessly to reunite children with any parents that survived the camps. Most didn’t. I still can’t believe they gave the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore instead of her. His work was groundbreaking, but really? She died in 2008.
This would be a good story to tell when we remember the Slaughter of the Holy Innocents next Sunday. The world is still filled with Herods.
Bishop Michael Rinehart 