(Photo-Mary McCann)

"Awakened historical memory and critical vision are both a blessing and a curse. The curse is the pain of seeing infinite suffering and glimpsing one’s complicity in it. From this kind of pain we naturally shrink. It is dangerous. It may debilitate, paralyze, breed self-hatred, or reinstate avoidance and denial unless the pain is tended carefully and respectfully, wed paradoxically to self-respect, and shared by knowing companionship."

Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda, Healing a Broken World: Globalization and God.