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Boston Archbishop Visiting Auschivitx
Pleas For Christian-Je'wish Brotherhood
BOSTON (JTA) - The
Archbishop of Boston, Ber
nard Cardinal Law, leading a
94-member Massachusetts
group to Poland, issued a plea
at Auschwitz for brotherhood
between Christians and Jews.
Laying flowers before the Wall
of Death at the former Nazi
death camp, Law told the
large assemblage, “Never
again.”
Joining Law at the camp
were Franciszek Cardinal
Macharski, Archbishop of
Cracow, in whose archdiocese
Auschwitz is located, and who
recently returned from a visit
to Yad Vashem in Israel; and
Friedrich Cardinal Wetter of
Munich.
Also present were delega
tion members Massachusetts
Governor Michael Dukakis
and his wife Kitty; Mass.
State Sen. William Bulger;
representatives of the
Massachusetts Jewish com
munity, led by Auschwitz sur
vivor Sonia Weitz of Peabody;
and Leonard Zakim, New
England regional director of
the Anti-Defamation League.
The 10-day visit to Poland was
a Catholic pilgrimage to
strengthen American-Polish
Catholic ties, but Jews were
invited to participate in the
visit. On the last day the
group went to Auschwitz.
After touring Auschwitz
with the large group, whom
Law referred to as “fellow
pilgrims,” Law gave a lengthy
speech “of protest and deter
mination” in which he prayed
for the victims of the Nazis
and voiced “trepidation” at
the auguries of the century to
come, emphasizing Christian
responsibility for the past and
future.
‘iVever Again, Never Again’
“The 21st century will begin
soon,” said Law. “Another
chance? For what? Whoever
does not think of it with
trepidation does not know
Auschwitz .... We who are
Christians — we who claim
redemption has taken place
have to deal with Auschwitz
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Standing before the stone
monument to the four million
who were killed at the camp, of
whom two-and-a-half million
were Jews, Law said: “Here,
whatever one might believe,
wherever one comes from, here
every man and woman
becomes Jewish or ceases to
be human.... Here, the human
cry becomes the Jewish cry or
one has died spiritually. Never
again. Never again.”
Law spoke of “two for
midable obstacles” that the
present generation faces in ad
mitting the “human capacity
for evil.” He said these were
“our desire to deny respon
sibility for good and evil” and
“confidence in the unaided
moral progress of the human
race,” which Law called a
hollow fantasy.
Invoking the “Shema”
(Hear O Israel... ”) which the
Jews chanted as they march
ed to the crematoria, Law said
the prayer was an explanation
in itself for Auschwitz being
“a perpetual reminder of our
need for G-d. Their profession
of faith supports the moral
heritage shared by Jews and
Christians.”
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