text: Allow me to suggest an audacious historical parallel.  
  
  I'm told that in the 1930s,  1/3rd of Germany was Catholic.   You know the rest of the story (although a book needs to be written about just how and why the average German Catholic was persuaded to go along with the Nazi regime).
  
  But this much seems clear:  It was far more often the case that the German Catholic went along with  that age's terrorists, rather than resist them.
  
  Again, you know the rest of the story.   And the conclusion:   working with those terrorists only strengthened their power.  Concordats and Half measured and heartlessly vague scoldings by Church authorities?  Their effect in serving the cause of peace was nil.
  
  In hindsight, we  must conclude that absolute resistance -- not sympathizing and hope -- should have been the German Catholic response.