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...Riccardo Pacifici, president of Rome's Jewish Community, says that the potential upside of the visit outweighs any doubts over whether Pius deserves to be a saint. "We hope the images going out to the world of the Pope coming to a Jewish house of worship ... will send out a signal on the individual level that we can all dialogue with the 'other' with the force of our conscience and our heads held high, and without feeling barriers of fear or prejudice," he says. (See pictures of the Pope visiting the Holy Land...
...teenager in Germany during World War II. In contrast to John Paul's willingness to talk about the war years, Benedict has offered scant recollections of his forced conscription into the Hitler Youth group. "I believe every elderly German has something worth telling Jews, and maybe also asking forgiveness," Pacifici says. (Read: "Benedict's Pope: Should Pius XII Become a Saint...
Benevolence and Betrayal has heroes as well as moral lepers. Rabbi Riccardo Pacifici risked his life by staying in Genoa after its occupation by German troops to minister to the city's large Jewish refugee population; he was one of some 7,000 Italian Jews to die in concentration camps. Carlo Schonheit, a cantor from Ferrara, and his son Franco were among the handful who survived Buchenwald, the horrors of which Alexander Stille describes with chilling understatement. Pietro Cardinal Boetto, the frail Archbishop of Genoa, unhesitatingly agreed to carry on the work of a Jewish relief organization after...
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