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Article: An incomplete confession: German bishops forgot their blessing on Hitler's wars.
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- December 15, 1995
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Much well-deserved praise greeted the January 1995 statement of Germany's Catholic bishops marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Their admission that Christians (more specifically Catholics, one may assume) must share responsibility for the evils of the Holocaust was a sincere and courageous mea culpa: "During the period of the Third Reich Christians did not carry out the required resistance to racist anti-Semitism." It is fair to add, however, that this admission would have carried added force had it included the equally frank acknowledgment that this moral failure was traceable at least in part to the failure of church leadership to remind the faithful ...
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