French bishops sorry for wartime silence.(on anti-Semitism during Nazi occupation in World War II)(Brief Article)

National Catholic Reporter | October 10, 1997 | Copyright

DRANCY, France -- At a ceremony near a former Jewish deportation camp, French bishops made an unprecedented apology for their church's "silence" in the face of anti-Semitic policies during Nazi occupation in World War II.

As a crowd of several hundred Christians and Jews listened Sept. 30 in the Paris suburb of Drancy, Bishop Olivier de Berranger of the St. Denis diocese declared that, particularly during the initial 1940-42 occupation period, "too many pastors of the church, by their silence, offended the church itself and its mission."

"Today we ...

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