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TELEPHONE: (09) 328 1388 WARSAW: Pope John Paul's linking abortion with the Holocaust was unfortunate, according to leaders of Poland's Jewish communities who met him.
Pope John Paul talked about the Holocaust as a "systematic killing of an entire nation". He also said in the talk that "the cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to
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include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn". "I missed a word about those who committed this act and about those who even today think that nothing happened," said a spokesman. The pope did not respond directly to the concerns. In his prepared
remarks to the Jewish leaders, the pope railed the Holocaust an "unprecedented crime" which was "inconceivable in its severity".
the terrible crime perpetrated against the entire Jewish people." Three million of Poland's 3.5-millionmember Jewish community died in the Nazi death camps. Today there are 10,000 Jews in Poland. The pope said sometimes his fellow Poles were not even
The pope recalled his 1987 meeting with Polish Jewish leaders when, he said: "I, and the overwhelming majority of Poles, powerlessly watched
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• • aware of what the Nazis were doing in the camps "becaust, the perpetrators were hiding them".
While there is "much evil in our mutual history", Poland had at times been a place where Christians and Jews lived and worked together accomplishing good.
• "Today," he said, "it seems to be very important that on both sides we try to perceive, salvage and renew the good things that occurred in our mutual relations." He said Vatican II teachings about the Jews and subsequent documents against anti-Semitism must find a place in "ever-
yday life". "May the content of these documents be an inspiration to all churches, local including the Polish church, to overcome the damaging stereotypes, established patterns and prejudices still lingering here and there," he said. The pope said the Holocaust "shocked Christian Europe and mobilised it to righting the wrongs that were done against the Jews".
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DALY'S VIEW ON BID TO BRING PEACE TO NORTHERN IRELAND
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Bringing peace to "give them an awareness that their Northern Ireland will be difficult, but heartbreak is shared by many others". politicians must listen to the majority of "And perhaps that a Catholic bishop Catholics and Protestants who are "desper- should attend the scene of an outrage ately anxious", Cardinal-designate Cahal perpetrated by IRA personnel and offer Daly of Armagh told Vatican Radio. sympathy to people who are Protestants and unionists, that this might perhaps bring an Most Irish believe if the current talks added note of comfort in both communihope of some break off "it would retard the kind of settlement for many years to come", ties," he said. He repeated what he had said before — he said. "Politicians would be very slow to take that there is no difference between the responsibility for bringing that about". Protestant tears and Catholic tears. "They're "The politicians are listening and have got all human tears. "They're not coloured green, they're not to listen to the voice of the majority out there orange. They're just human tears coloured who are desperately anxious for these talks of distress." to succeed," the cardinalpdesignate said. Cardinal-designate Daly said that in some Sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, which has claimed almost 3000 lives since urban enclaves and rural areas where 1969, escalated in late May as what the "paramilitary, loyalist or republican" primate called "talks about talks" were factions are very strong, people "keep silent" about their hopes for the talks and an end underway. While some saw the renewed violence as to violence. an attempt "to sabotage the hope of talks", "But they are doing it in their prayers and he said, "on the contrary,Ithink the violence in the number which will come to special is going to give more incentive and create devotions of prayer for peace," he said. a greater sense of urgency on the politicians "There's a very strong groundswell of to get the talks going". opinion out there in the wider community, The cardinal-designate visited the both Catholic and Protestant, that the military base where three soldiers were politicians should continue talking and killed by the Irish Republican Army. somehow that the talks should bring about He said he hoped the visit would be "of an agreed settlement of our problems and, some little consolation" to the families and hopefully then, of our violence."
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