Pope John Paul II did not meet with an anti-Semitic priest on the first day of his current trip to Poland, the chief Vatican spokesman and a Jewish leader in Warsaw said. Stanislaw Krajewski, a member of the board of the Union of Jewish Communities in Poland, told JTA on Monday that on Saturday the pope had visited an ecumenical center in Gdansk that had been built by Father Henryk Jankowski, but “he did not meet with the anti-Semitic priest.” Reports of the meeting apparently originated from Jankowski himself.
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