Some "very faithful" Christians say that they do not care about politics, thinking what a virtue it is. Yet, by this "not caring," they mostly just allow all sorts of bandits to do as they please.
This failure of ours was most glaringly demonstrated by the Germans in the last war. It is, specifically speaking, a question of collective guilt, primarily the guilt of the Germans, but also of all others, including us. When we talk about how the Germans behaved and how they should have behaved under Hitler, especially German Christians, it should prompt us to compare how we behave or should behave, we Czech Catholic Christians, in addressing analogous problems…
(Adolf Kajpr SJ /1902–1959/;
excerpt from the article Who was to blame, or you are the light of the world, published in "Katolík", January 12, 1947;
quoted from the book The Present is God's Own Time. Refugium 2021)
