The Jewish members of a Jewish-Catholic team formed to study the Vatican’s behavior during World War II criticized a leading cardinal’s attacks on them as “inflammatory” and “totally unjustified” and renewed calls to open Vatican archives on the period. The scholars responded to a document issued Aug. 24 by Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews.
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