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  • Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations November 1, 2009, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida

  • More than likely most of the Cardinals, the majority of who had been appointed by John Paul II, were unprepared to elect an outsider and favored someone who they believed would closely follow in John Paul II’s footsteps

  • I must ask, should not His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, as a German, take it upon himself, even more so than someone of a different nationality, the towering responsibility of remembering the Holocaust in a special way, and even of recognizing and identifying the complicity of the Catholic Church in creating the circumstances that led to it? Has not the Catholic Church over its two thousand year history permitted and, many times, broadly propagated and even instigated Christian antisemitism that led to the untold murders of Jews over the centuries, culminating in the Holocaust?

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Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations November 1, 2009, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. I must ask, should not His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, as a German, take it upon himself, even more so than someone of a different nationality, the towering responsibility of remembering the Holocaust in a special way, and even of recognizing and identifying the complicity of the Catholic Church in creating the circumstances that led to it?

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