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After Auschwitz, After Charlie Kirk, by John Kainer – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

After Auschwitz, After Charlie Kirk, by John Kainer

Identifying Gay Bishops and Priests, by Gene Thomas Gomulka

October 14, 2025

How To Stop Sinning, by Nate Guyear

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By John Kainer, The American Spectator, October 11, 2025

A call for moral responsibility amid suffering.

I just finished teaching Viktor Frankl’s masterpiece, Man’s Search for Meaning. A day later, Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a college campus, much like the one that I teach at. Charlie Kirk and those like him have been repeatedly portrayed as fascists and Neo-Nazis, though they are neither. However, since this premise has been used to justify and celebrate his assassination, I offer the lessons of a man who survived Nazism and the death camps as therepeia — a healing — for my damaged country.

In the final pages of Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl recounts the story of walking with a friend of his after they were liberated from Auschwitz. Walking arm in arm, his friend pulled him through a field of green crops. Frankl, for his part, managed to stammer something about not crushing the crops, which sent his friend flying into a rage. “You don’t say!,” raged the friend, “And hasn’t enough been taken from us? My wife and child have been gassed … and you would forbid me to tread on a few stalks of oats.” …

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After Auschwitz, After Charlie Kirk, by John Kainer

Identifying Gay Bishops and Priests, by Gene Thomas Gomulka

How To Stop Sinning, by Nate Guyear

By John Kainer, The American Spectator, October 11, 2025

A call for moral responsibility amid suffering.

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