Who Do We See
by Father Casey
Like many of you, this past week I followed closely the news of the search for the deep sea submersible Titan. I found myself checking every few hours for updates, holding on to hope that the passengers were somehow alive, and rescue crews would be able to invent some way to bring them safely to the surface. Sadly, in spite of a massive effort, this story has ended in tragedy. Crews have found the imploded remains of the submersible, where all five passengers died. We pray for those five souls, and their families.
Four days before the Titan made its tragic final descent, another ship was lost at sea, though you may have heard nothing about it. It was an overloaded fishing trawler sailing from Libya to Greece, carrying as over 750 men, women, and children, of which only 104 were saved. It is one of the worst maritime disasters in recent history.
Both of these stories are terrible, and both are deserving of our grief and compassion. But the overwhelming attention paid to the first, and the almost total lack of attention paid to the second, begs some hard questions about what we choose to pay attention to. The passengers of the Titan each paid $250,000 to make the dramatic dive to the wreckage of the Titanic. Meanwhile, ...
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