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Vatican Criticism

Priest, rabbis and ADL aide say Holocaust
statement was too little, too late.

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7/3

1998

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he Vatican did not do all it
could to save Jews during
World War II. And the
admission of its failure
some 50 years later was also weak, a
panel of local clergymen and laypeo-
ple said this week.
The only priest in a four-member
group, Father John H. West of St.
John Center for Youth and Family in
Plymouth, told the audience of mostly
elderly Jews that he didn't know why
the Vatican's response to the murder
of six million Jews wasn't as unequivo-
cal as the official response of the
French Catholic Church last year.
"I was led to believe the French
bishops were to become the model,
because their document was so signifi-
cant. In the face of a so great and
utter tragedy, too many of the church's
pastors committed an offense by their
silence," said West.
West joined Rabbis Charles

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From left: Rabbi Rosenzveig,
Don Cohen, Father John H. West,
and Rabbi Sherwin Wine.

Rosenzveig of the Holocaust
Memorial Center, Sherwin Wine of
Birmingham Temple and Don Cohen
of the Anti-Defamation League on
Tuesday evening to discuss a letter
released in March that the Vatican
described as an act of repentance for
the failure of Roman Catholics to
deter the Holocaust. The event was
sponsored by the Jewish Community
Council and moderated by Detroit
Free Press religion writer David
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Crumm.
Rosenzveig said that although the
Vatican statement is "a remarkable
change for the-good, nowhere in the
statement is the hierarchy blamed. It's
the members of the church who didn't
follow the teachings."
He cited centuries of persecution
by the church towards Jews which
eventually "created a condition that 114
enabled the vast majority of
Europeans to tolerate and even justify
the murder of their Jewish compatri-
ots."
According to Rosenzveig, the Nazi's