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Pope John Paul II and the Jews: An Evaluation

Pope John Paul II and the Jews: An Evaluation

March 21, 2006 | Prof. Sergio Itzhak Minerbi
Many Jews admired the late Pope John Paul II but paid little attention to the content of his message. A deeper analysis of his statements offers a better understanding. In his encyclical "Dominum et Vivificantem" of 1986, he seemed to revive the accusation of deicide. Visiting Auschwitz in 1979, he called it "the Golgotha of the modern world" and spoke of "six million Poles who lost their lives during the war."