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"Everybody in the Vat- ican, from the pope on down, has long been committed to this, and the (Polish) epis- copate is, but the nuns are complaining they've not been consulted," said Rabbi A. James Rudin, director of interreligious affairs at the American Jewish Com- mittee. The nuns have the sym- pathy and support of some local Catholics, who regard the transfer of the Carmelite convent to a new facility across the road and off the grounds of the death camp as an affront to Polish dignity, he said. In sermons, a local priest has preached that the nuns should not leave and that to do so would be to submit to outside pressure, according to Rabbi Rudin. The Polish Catholic news- paper The Word recently ran an editorial charging that the only time convents have been closed has been under occupiers of Poland — the Russians, the Prussians and the Austrians. From the Polish point of view, "this is the worst company anyone could be in," Rabbi Rudin said. And in a letter to the editor recently reprinted in another, secular newspaper, a senior member of the Polish Catholic hierarchy wrote "if and when the nuns move," according to Rabbi Rudin, who termed the language "ominous." It is up to the Polish epis- copate — their version of a bishops conference — to in- itiate the move, and it may be paralyzed by an internal debate over whether transferring the nuns is the correct thing to do. "Inside the church in Poland there's a struggle go- ing on," said Rabbi Rudin. "What's disturbing is this main obstacle has been played out now for six years," since the issue of nuns living and praying at Auschwitz first came to widespread public attention. "I know the nuns will move, but the question is when," he said. The Vatican reportedly sent a letter of instructions for moving the convent to Tadeusz Rakoczy, the bishop of the area that includes Oswiecim, the Polish town where Auschwitz is located. According to Rabbi Rudin, the bishop received that letter. But Rabbi Avi Weiss, pres- ident of Amcha, the Coali- The nuns have the support of local Catholics. tion for Jewish Concerns, said he doubts the letter's existence. "No one we have contacted, whether Catholic or Polish officials, has been able to produce the text" of the letter, Rabbi Weiss said. According to Rabbi Rudin, Mr. Rabin has said that the problem with the convent and commemorations of the uprising should not be link- ed, and that he will go to Warsaw regardless of whether or not the convent problem is resolved. The AJCommittee was still considering whether or not to participate. Meanwhile, Bishop Rakoc- zy is said to have told an American reporter that he expects the nuns to be out "in a few days." And Rabbi Rudin said he had received reports that the primate of Poland, Ar- chbishop Jozef Glemp, said this week that the nuns would leave "soon." "If these reports are true, then it is indeed a hopeful sign," said the AJCom- mittee official. "But we're still waiting for them to leave."