“Violence is not the cure for our broken world,” the pope writes.

“I am very aware that my ethnicity is dying.”

These are the opening words of the front-page editorial of The Catholic Herald published four days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

From the archives.

For some, El Salvador was a shameful episode, in which Washington backed the perpetrators of a death squad bloodbath in a failed attempt to militarily defeat a homegrown leftist insurgency.

This is not a history we Americans like to ponder.