Pope Makes Peace Offer to Lutherans; Jesuit Who Confronted Hitler Is Beatified in Munich

The Washington Post | May 4, 1987| | Copyright

Pope John Paul II offered an olive branch to West Germany's Lutherans today and elevated a courageous German Jesuit priest who was persecuted and silenced by the Nazis to the status of blessed, one step below sainthood.

In a 2 1/2-hour Mass at Munich's Olympic Stadium, less than a mile from the Olympic Village where Palestinian terrorists massacred Israeli athletes in 1972, the pontiff beatified the Rev. Rupert Mayer. Mayer was one of the few German Catholic clergymen to speak directly against the Nazis and on behalf of their victims during the Hitler era.

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