We Remember: A Reflection On The Shoah

We Remember: A Reflection On The Shoah
   In March 1998, the Catholic Church issued a long awaited document on the Holocaust. The Vatican document, 11 years in the making and issued by the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with Jews, acknowledged that centuries of Christian prejudice aimed at the Jews rendered many Christians less sensitive to the Nazis’ anti-Jewish atrocities, but insisted that Nazism represented a pagan movement. It also acknowledged that individual Catholics did things that were wrong or even sinful in their support of anti-Semitism and the Nazi persecution of the Jews. However, to the dismay of many Jewish leaders, the document fell short of expectations inasmuch as it absolved the church as such from complicity in the Holocaust and gave credit to Pope Pius XII for saving the lives of several hundred thousand Jews, but skirted the issue of his silence in the face of his knowledge of the Final Solution.

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