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Pope in Israel, says will honor Holocaust dead
Mon May 11, 2009 11:17am EDT
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Pope Benedict remembered the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during his trip to Israel on Monday and strove to heal the wounds inflicted by his lifting of the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop.
"Tragically, the Jewish people have experienced the terrible circumstances of ideologies that deny the fundamental dignity of every human person," he said at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion airport, going on to challenge Israel's right-leaning government by calling for a Palestinian homeland.
"I will have the opportunity to honor the memory of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Shoah," the German-born pope said, using the Hebrew term for the Holocaust, "and to pray that humanity will never again witness a crime of such magnitude."
He later flew by Israeli military helicopter to Jerusalem, where he said at President Shimon Peres's official residence that his pilgrimage was one of "prayer for the precious gift of unity and peace for the Middle East and all of humanity."
Welcoming the pontiff, Peres said: "Spiritual leaders can pave the way for political leaders. They can clear the minefields that obstruct the road to peace."
"Ties of reconciliation and understanding are now being woven between the Holy See and the Jewish people," Peres added. "Our door is open to similar efforts with the Muslim world."
In the 45 years since the Second Vatican Council repudiated the concept of collective Jewish guilt for Christ's death, Catholic-Jewish relations have been haunted by the Holocaust and the question of what the church did, or failed to do, about it.
They went through one of their worst periods after the pope in January lifted the excommunication of four traditionalist bishops, including Briton Richard Williamson who denied 6 million Jews were killed.
The Vatican says it had not known enough about Williamson's past and the church and Jewish religious leaders now hope the issue can be definitively closed with a visit later in the day by the pontiff to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
Before Williamson and the other bishops can be fully readmitted into the Church, the Vatican said, they must accept the teachings of the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council that urged respect for other religions.
ANTI-SEMITISM
Pope Benedict, who flew into Israel from Jordan, criticized anti-Semitism, which he said "continues to rear its ugly head" in many parts of the world.
"Every effort must be made to combat anti-Semitism wherever it is found, and to promote respect and esteem for the members of every people, tribe, language and nation across the globe," he said at the airport.
Pope Benedict's visit has stirred little enthusiasm among Israelis. Born Joseph Ratzinger in Bavaria in 1927, he was a member of the Hitler Youth when enrolment was compulsory, according to his autobiography.
His biographers say he was never a member of the Nazi party and his family opposed Adolf Hitler's regime. Continued...
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