Pope John Paul II said he hoped dialogue between Jews and Catholics “will continue in a climate of renewed openness and trust.” The remark was his first public comment after the Vatican released a document on the Holocaust that most Jewish leaders said did not go far enough in acknowledging the church’s inaction on behalf of Jewish victims of Nazism.
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