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Thu 01 Jan 2009Pope's solidarity message tries to repair strained relations with Jews
IN AN attempt to smooth increasingly strained relations between the Catholic Church and Jews worldwide, Pope Benedict XVI yesterday used the platform of his weekly public audience in St Peter’s to send a message of “solidarity” to Jews.
The pope was trying to mend fences that have been at least partially broken by his decision last weekend to lift the excommunication of four traditionalist Lefebvre bishops, one of whom is a well-known Holocaust denier.
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