The Vatican is expected to release Monday a long-awaited report on the role of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust. The report will include a clarification of the church’s stance during the war as well as a statement acknowledging some guilt, a French bishop was quoted as saying. Pope John Paul II first promised to have the document drafted in 1987, during a meeting with Jewish leaders.
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