Pope Francis: ‘Remember Holocaust so never repeated’
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met with a delegation
from the European Jewish Congress Friday on the International Holocaust Remembrance
Day, which occurs annually on 27 January.
The Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Religious
Relations with the Jews, Fr. Norbert Hofmann, was present at the meeting.
In an interview with Vatican Radio (in Italian), he said the
Pope “began the dialogue by mentioning the importance of this Day for the Jews,
but also for us, because remembering the victims of the Holocaust is important
so that this human tragedy never happens again”.
The delegation, he said, represents more than 2 million Jews
in Europe.
Fr. Hofmann said the President of the Congress, Moshe
Kantor, spoke about “the importance of ethics, that is, of the values which
Christians and Jews have in common. He said that in our world we see much
progress but also a decline in moral and ethical values. Therefore, we need to
strengthen these values which we share. And then he spoke about the importance
of education and the family.”
Pope Francis, Fr. Hofmann said, agreed completely with these
themes and shared a story from his childhood.
“The Pope said that, in his family, his father often
received Jews… and thus, already as a child, our Pope learned to have several
Jewish friends.”
Also on Friday, the Vatican’s permanent representative
to the OSCE said the Holocaust teaches us that "utmost vigilance is always
needed to be able to take prompt action in defense of human dignity
and peace".
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