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Pope John Paul's courage, moral integrity and indomitable spirit set him apart from all other world leaders. His words and actions during this trip may not have appeased or pleased everyone. Yet when I listened to his words at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and saw his shaking hand touch the Western Wall, I knew this was a man of peace for people of all nationalities and faiths. PAULA DELFIORE Cranston...
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...abandon the priest lest he try to convert her, and she hid. But she remembered his name and that he was from Wadowice. Reading a story on the new Pope in Paris Match in 1978, she said, "This is the man who saved me!" Today she came to Yad Vashem to thank...
...misguided church members and the possible misguidance of the church as a whole. Some Jewish leaders later pointed this out. But most echoed the American Jewish Congress's Phil Baum, who admitted that "it was perhaps wishful thinking that the Pope would explicitly apologize in his visit to Yad Vashem today for the silence of Pope Pius XII and the institutional church during the Holocaust." Baum added that "it is sometimes forgotten that the Vatican bears no direct responsibility for the Holocaust." Although the church had been "cruelly delinquent" in its response to the horror, "that moral failure, at least...
With his nuanced and elegant responses to challenges posed by Deheisha and Yad Vashem, it seemed briefly that the Pope might have a true knack for parsing the Holy Land's distressing riddles. But by that evening the region once more manifested its ability to humble even the most high-minded and surefooted. For months John Paul had been anticipating a grand interfaith meeting between himself and Jewish and Muslim leaders. Originally he planned it for Mount Sinai, but the location was dropped as logistically difficult. Then Jerusalem's Grand Mufti Ekrema Sabri, the chief Muslim leader in the Palestinian...