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Article: French Catholics repent Holocaust silence.(Brief Article)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- October 22, 1997
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More than 50 years after the end of World War II, France's Roman Catholic Church has issued an apology for its silence over French collaboration during the Holocaust. "Today we confess that silence was a mistake," Archbishop Olivier de Berranger said September 30 in Drancy, a Paris suburb that served during World War II as a staging area for the deportation of French Jews to Nazi death camps. The ceremony took place in a small square between a railroad freight car and a monument honoring those who were deported.
"We beg for the pardon of God, and we ask the Jewish people to hear this word of repentance," said Monsignor de Berranger, archbishop of St. Denis, a ...