One of the greatest challenges of our times in the small and larger circles of our lives is to be self-consciously consistent in our moral concerns and practice. This means not practicing a selective morality of concern for some humans and not for others, and of supporting rules and laws for the many and exceptions and dismissals for the so-called chosen few. And it means having the courage to reject and resist betrayals of silence which are counseled by others and coerced by the dominant society in spite of the awesome suffering, oppression and mass murder of vulnerable others clearly visible and witnessed by the world. The recent engagement of the new pope, Pope Leo XIV, with the

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