|
Vatican boycotts Holocaust ceremony over Pope caption |
|
Written by The Independent (UK)
|
|
Saturday, 14 April 2007 11:00 |
|
Vatican boycotts Holocaust ceremony over Pope caption "Relations between the Holy See and Israel have hit a new low after the Vatican's ambassador to Israel, Monsignor Antonio Franco, said he was boycotting the Holocaust Day ceremony at Jerusalem's Holocaust Museum tomorrow night. The row broke out over the caption on a large photograph of Pope Pius XII in the Yad Vashem museum which castigates his recognition of the Nazi regime, his failure to protest when the Vatican learnt that Jews were being massacred, and his failure to react to the deportation of Jews from Rome to the death camps. The caption concludes: "His silence, and the absence of guidelines obliged Churchmen throughout Europe to decide on their own how to react."…”
|