Pope Benedict, Judaism, and the Nature of Antisemitism
[For comprehensive coverage of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Poland, I refer you to American Papist's "The Great Poland Post of 2006". This was originally posted to my blog May 30, 2006 -- Christopher]...
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From Zenit:Priests and Nuns Named Righteous Among the Nations Medal Ceremony Held at Polish Bishops' Conference Headquarters Two nuns and three priests were honored last week with the recognition...
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Federico Cenci, for Zenit:Sooner or Later, Pius XII Will Be Beatified “All kinds of things have been said about poor Pius XII,” observed Pope Francis in a recent interview with the Spanish newspaper...
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Barbie Latza Nadeau in The Daily Beast - There is still a faint black stain in the shape of a swastika on the Jewish memorial plaque along the Via Lungara near the Vatican in Rome. The plaque marks...
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Thomas D. Williams, for Breitbart: Vatican Donates 100,000 Euros for the Support of Auschwitz Memorial In a symbolic gesture, the Vatican has donated the sum of €100,000 ($127,000) to the...
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Jan Jagielski, at the Monument for Child Victims of the Holocaust, the Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw.(Adrian Grycuk, in Wikipedia)What an incredibly moving story ... if only there were more people like Mr....
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JP Newsroom - Pope Francis has reiterated his position to open the secret Vatican archives covering the period of World War II to allow researchers to assess the role played by Pope Pius XII during...
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The Telegraph - Darren Richman joins his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, on his journey back to the Nazi concentration camp It starts with a number and that number is 84303. My grandfather, Zigi...
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Jonathan Luxmoore in The Tablet -Priests and parishes in Poland have been urged to do more to maintain their country’s estimated 1,000 Jewish synagogues and cemeteries, still surviving 70 years after...
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AFPThe Guardian - Almost 300 survivors of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz gather on Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of their liberation, in what for many will...
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From the archives of the Guardian - 14 May 1945 - One of the prisoners found at Buchenwald was a young Jew from Lodz calledAbraham Cykiert. He had kept some record of his experiences on scraps of...
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Benodette, many thanks for these articles on the 70th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Even today, from a distance of seven decades, the pain of Auschwitz can still cut to the heart, even...
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Michele Chabin, for Religion News Service:Saved from the German ‘death march,’ he returned to thank his Polish rescuer WILCZA, Poland (RNS) On Jan. 22, 1945, a woman from this small village in...
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Rabbi David Rosen, International Director of Interreligious Affairs for the American Jewish Committee, in Religion News Service:50 years of Christian-Jewish revolution: What we can all learn (RNS)...
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Andrea Tornielli, for Vatican Insider:"Lo vuole il Papa". The docu-film about the Jews who sought refuge in the cloisters Wednesday 1 April at 21.10 on Tv2000, the stories, testimonies, and documents...
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Alfred Grosser, for La Croix, via Global Pulse:The memory of the Buchenwald camps It was obviously appropriate to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945. But we should not forget...
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Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin, for Religion News Service:Let us compare genocides This month is the one hundredth anniversary of the Armenian genocide. That’s right — it’s a genocide. That’s exactly what Pope...
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Vatican Radio - Cardinal George Pell has praised the efforts of participants in an historic international gathering of Christian and Jewish leaders in Israel to mark the 50th anniversary of the...
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Matt Hadro in CNA-A 50 year-old declaration of the Second Vatican Council established a new era in Christian-Jewish relations and enabled members of both religions to unite against present-day...
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Lisa Palmieri-Billig, for Vatican Insider:The Holy See and the Middle East Peace Process: Is the Agreement with Palestine a help or hindrance? Vatican Secretary of State speaks about on Israel,...
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