When moderation is no virtue

On a posting on Jesus Radicals, this quote from Albert Camus about the Church speaking out clearly:

In 1948 the philosopher Albert Camus was asked by a group of Catholic scholars to address the question, why did not the Church speak more clearly and forcefully against the crimes of the Nazis?  “Why shall I not say this here?” Camus asked.  “For a long time I waited during those terrible years, for a strong voice to be lifted up in Rome. I, an unbeliever?  Exactly.  For I knew that spirit would be lost if it did not raise the cry of condemnation in the presence of force.  It appears that this voice was raised.  But I swear to you that millions of people, myself included, never heard it; and that there was in the hearts of believers and unbelievers a solitude which did not cease to grow as the days went by and the executioners multiplied. It was later explained to me that the condemnation had indeed been uttered, but in the language of encyclicals, which is not clear.  The condemnation had been pronounced but it had not been understood.  Who cannot see that this is where the real condemnation lies?  Who does not see that this example contains within it one of the elements of the answer, perhaps the whole answer to the question you have asked me?  What the world expects of Christians is that Christians speak out and utter their condemnation in such a way that never a doubt, never a single doubt can arise in the heart of even the simplest person.  That Christians get out of their abstractions and stand face to face with the bloody mess that is our history today.   The gathering we need today is the gathering together of people who are resolved to speak out clearly and to pay with their own person.”