The French Jewish Consistory has asked the Vatican to reconsider its decision to build a Carmelite convent on the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Consistory president Jean Paul Elkann cabled Cardinal Willebrand to ask him to intercede with the Pope on this issue.
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