Pope declares holocaust is a warning against oppression
The Pope tours Auschwitz to show support for the victims of the Nazi death camps. Asia News photo.
By Asia News
Vatican City (AsiaNews) – The Holocaust remains a warning against the power of evil and all forms of oblivion and negationism, Benedict XVI said today as he expressed his “full and unquestionable solidarity” with Jews.
The Pope who mentioned his visit to Auschwitz also referred to his decision to lift the excommunication on bishops consecrated by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, urging them to accept the Second Vatican Council.
“Whilst I renew with affection the expression of my full and unquestionable solidarity with our (Jewish) brothers, I hope the memory of the Shoah (Holocaust) will induce humanity to reflect on the unpredictable power of hate when it conquers the heart of man,” the Holy Father said.
The Holocaust, he added must be “a warning against oblivion, negation or reductionism because violence against even one human being is violence against all.”
Benedict XVI’s remarks come in response to the controversy caused by a traditionalist bishop, Mgr Richard Williamson, who has denied the gas chambers ever existed, cutting the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust to at best 300,000.
Catholic writer Jay Guillette reports that the Chief Rabbinate has not severed ties with the Vatican over the issue, but that the Rabbis say maintaining a relationship will be difficult without amends being made.
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