Pope: Fight anti-semitism with education and respect
for all
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday met with a
delegation from the Anti-Defamation League encouraging them to cultivate
justice and foster accord and telling them “the fight against
anti-Semitism can benefit from effective instruments, such as information and
formation.”
The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 "to stop
the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to
all,” and on Thursday just like his predecessors, Saint John Paul II and
Benedict XVI, Pope Francis received a delegation from the organization, which
has maintained relations with the Holy See since the Second Vatican
Council.
Speaking to those gathered the Pope recalled his visit last
year to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp saying, “there are no
adequate words or thoughts in the face of such horrors of cruelty and sin;
there is prayer, that God may have mercy and that such tragedies may never
happen again.”
Denouncing anti-Semitism, in all its forms, the Holy Father
reaffirmed that “the Catholic Church feels particularly obliged to do all that
is possible with our Jewish friends to repel anti-Semitic tendencies”.
Today more than ever, Pope Francis continued, “the fight
against anti-Semitism can benefit from effective instruments, such as
information and formation.”
Faced with too much violence spreading throughout the world,
the Pope underlined, “we are called to a greater nonviolence, which does not
mean passivity, but active promotion of the good”, which he added, included the
dignity of human life from conception to natural end.
The Holy Father encouraged the delegation sow the seeds of
goodness by cultivating justice, fostering accord, and sustaining integration.
Only in this way, he said, “may we gather the fruits of peace.”
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