​Will we ever move beyond our hate?  Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB, writes in the National Catholic Reporter sympathetically and with great wisdom of the struggle for the people of Iraq who are the caretakers of the Garden of Eden, a culture nearly 10,000 years old.  What does it mean and what difference does it make that ancient artifacts are being destroyed?  What does it mean to this ancient culture and to cultures who have grown from the influences of this ancient and vibrant culture?  Can we stop the hate and its ravenous destruction of history?  Sr. Joan says, “To destroy the past is to make the present our idol — untried, untested, untempered by anything but the passions of the moment.  Read Sr. Joan’s insight into this destruction found in the National Catholic Reporter by clickingHERE.