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18 Detroit Jewish News
IN THE ORCHARD MALL
WEST BLOOMFIELD
A rabbi takes the message of religious harmony
to the pulpit from which
Father Coughlin preached contempt.
Schwartz said the timing and location
of his sermon was no coincidence.
"The Catholic diocese chose this
location and permitted it to happen
s a child in New York in the
here, to send a message," Schwartz
50's, young Dannel
Schwartz listened attentively said.
"That message", said the rabbi, "is
to the words and wisdom of
that it's time to change and the church
his immigrant grandfather, his Zede.
is willing to change." The Vatican is
Among the vivid images of their
not only prepared to enter a dialogue
talks, young Dannel remembered his
on the horrors of the Nazi holocaust,
Zede's concerns about an anti-Semitic
Schwartz said, but the Pope is encour-
priest, Father Charles Coughlin, who
aa b ina b the Catholic church
taught contempt of Jews in a
to "remember the pains of
Rabbi D annel
nationwide radio broadcast.
Schzvart z and
the holocaust and never let
He remembered his Zede's
Detroit Auxiliary it happen again."
fear, while listening to the
Bishop J ohn
Schwartz told the mixed
broadcasts, that Nazi Ger-
Niensted t stood
congregation at the "Shrine"
many could happen again.
that the Pope gave him and
And he remembered his Zede together in St.
Peter's
Square
other
American clergy this
telling him that this Father
directive during a unique
Coughlin spoke from a pulpit during a Vatican
visit in the spring. interfaith mission in Rome
in some far-off place called
this spring.
"Royal Oak, Michigan."
"Some Jews say the Vatican's
Some 40 years later Dannel
expression of regret about the Holo-
Schwartz, now rabbi of West Bloom-
caust is too little too late", Schwartz
field Township's Temple Shir Shalom,
told the crowd. "But that the church
was asked to speak on the topic of
is coping with this issue at all", he
religious harmony at Father Coughlin's
said, "is a miracle to me."
former pulpit at the Shrine of the Lit-
"And that a Bishop and a Rabbi can
tle Flower Catholic Church.
stand together on a pulpit that was
Following his sermon to a crowd of
once the core of anti-Semitism", he
more than 200 Jews and Catholics
said, "is momentous — historical".
that packed the church this Sunday,
CATHY SHAF RAN
Special to The Jewish News
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