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A REPENTING CHURCH : France & Germany show the way.(Catholic bishops in France and Germany admit error in Holocaust)
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November 19, 1999|
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The editors of Commonweal have posed a three-part question on the church and the confession of error. The nature of the answer depends on the meaning given to the noun "church." One assumes, first of all, that we are speaking of the Catholic church, and not the worldwide Body of Christ. If we are speaking, on the one hand, of the church as the people of God, at least portions of that church have confessed error, time and time again, often openly and without equivocation. And this continues today in the public statements of various Catholic organizations, in the writings of ...
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