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Simon Wiesenthal

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Simon Wiesenthal

Forgiveness

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Simon Wiesenthal is saying that schools, the Church, and parents each contribute to failure by not openly addressing important truths—schools by staying silent, the Church by forgiving without confronting, and parents by denying and not speaking up. He believes the younger generation needs to be told these difficult realities because the older generation avoids sharing them.

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I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.