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Buchanan spoke at Harvard last week, often receiving boos and hisses from the crowd for statements he made in the past regarding immigration, homosexuality, women's issues and the Holocaust...
Pope Pius XII sat through the Holocaust in the Vatican, either turning a blind eye or quietly resisting - depending on whom you believe. But for Pope John Paul II, then Karol Wojtyla of Wadowice, Poland, the Holocaust was a lived experience, as he made clear during an emotional address at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial on Thursday. And whatever his judgment on the acts and omissions of the Vatican at the time, there was no moral ambiguity about the response of the young Catholic seminarian who watched as the Jewish friends and neighbors with whom he'd grown...
Indeed, even Buchanan's legendary oratorical skills (admittedly superior to that of his questioners) could not completely hide his dark side at the ARCO Forum on Thursday. Buchanan stood squarely behind his remarks in praise of Hitler, his crack that Holocaust survivors have "group fantasies of martyrdom" and his support of Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk. As Neal Sher, the former director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations said, "Buchanan went to bat for every Nazi war criminal in America...
...Pope will also face pressure from Jews who, like Lau, regard Vatican statements about the Holocaust as "too little, too late." They will probably feel similarly about the homily, scheduled for last Sunday, in which John Paul was expected to reiterate regret for Christians' past anti-Semitic acts without admitting church culpability. Lau tells TIME he expects private pledges from John Paul to halt the canonization process for Pope Pius XII, who has been accused of "silence" during the Holocaust, but such promises are unlikely...
...aging pilgrim's search for personal, even mystical, fulfillment--at the stretch of river where Jesus was baptized, in the town where he was reared and at the places where he is said to have preached, been betrayed and risen from the dead. A visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial will also have deep meaning to a man who lost childhood friends in the death camps...