All across the United States, people are rising up--refusing to be complicit in the slow-motion annihilation of democracy.

The sixth words Christ utters from the cross brings us to the death of the Lord Jesus, crucified for our sake.

COMMENTARY: The fifth word from the cross points to Christ’s real bodily suffering — and his divine thirst for our salvation — as foretold in Scripture and confessed in the Creed.

No one believed the anti-democratic and antisemitic laws the Nazi party proposed would actually pass. Antisemitism had existed long before the Holocaust began; the United States Holocaust Memorial ...