sincere and heartfelt statement
which could and would have proved
sufficient. Something along these
lines:
"The Catholic Church hereby
acknowledges its failure during the
Holocaust. Nothing said now can
bring back 6 million lives but per-
haps an apology will make us more
aware of how we failed, our weak-
nesses, contribute to the concept of
zachor [remembrance], assure that
we will be more vigilant in the
future, that we will have the courage
to help the innocent and the
defenseless. We pray to God that He
will give the Church the strength
and fortitude never again to turn its
back on murder, mayhem and geno-
cide."
Such a statement would have gone
a long way to achieving the Church's
apparent objective of reaching out to
Jews.
Then, of course, there is the posi-
tive side — if positive is the right
word'— to the Church's action. At
least, for all the shortcomings of the
statement, the Church finally did
something.
And that observation prompts
another question:
What about the rest of the
world? 111

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