New York Cardinal John O’Connor apologized for centuries of Catholic anti- Semitism. “I ask this Yom Kippur that you understand my own abject sorrow for any member of the Catholic Church, high or low, who may have harmed you or your forebears in any way,” the cardinal said in a Sept. 8 letter that was published Sunday as a full-page ad in The New York Times. He referred to Pope John Paul II’s effort to make next year’s Ash Wednesday, which falls on March 8, a day for Catholics to atone for centuries of anti-Semitism.
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