Why, Lord, did you remain silent?!!!!

"OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) -- German-born Pope Benedict XVI, visiting Auschwitz as "a son of the German people," on Sunday denounced the "unprecedented mass crimes" of the Holocaust, and underlined the reality of Hitler's campaign to wipe out Europe's Jews.

"To speak in this place of horror, in this place where unprecedented mass crimes were committed against God and man, is almost impossible -- and it is particularly difficult and troubling for a Christian, for a pope from Germany," he said.

"In a place like this, words fail; in the end, there can be only a dread silence," he said, "a silence which itself is a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent?"" [CNN]

It wasn't God who remained silent while the Holocaust was happening. It was the Church who lost its tongue.

Adolf Hitler was a devout Catholic. Did the church speak out against these horrors while it was happening? Did the Pope release any defiance, outrage, or any statement against Hitler while he was executing his mission towards race and religious purity?

No, it wasn't God's act. It was the cruelty of men and the cowardice of others that is to blame for permitting the holocaust to happen.