
We Are All Witnesses to Good and Evil
Imagine: You are 21. You live in Poland. Suddenly, you are sent from your homeland halfway across the world to Hong Kong to serve as a missionary. In World War II, the Germans executed your friends and countrymen. Oświęcim, the town where you were a seminarian, became Auschwitz. You escaped that violence but you entered another war zone: the Japanese invasion and occupation of Hong Kong. The violence there was no less intense and barbaric than in Europe. You witnessed and experienced the worst of humanity. The world was on fire.People of faith and agnostics alike will benefit from knowing the life of Catholic Reverend Tomasz Szeliga, Salesians of Don Bosco, (1915 - 2005). We Are All Witnesses describes what Father Tomasz had seen and experienced for 35 years in Hong Kong: many kinds of good, such as love, sympathy and faith; and many types of evil, including war, brutality, and sadism. Father Tomasz followed his vow of obedience, his conscience, and God’s plan for him. His love of God