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Article: Jews bluntly tell Vatican: Pius IX doesn't merit sainthood
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- Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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- August 25, 2000
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Gruber, Ruth E.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
08-25-2000
Jews bluntly tell Vatican: Pius IX doesn't merit sainthood
An umbrella Jewish group dealing with Jewish-Catholic relations has bluntly
told the Vatican that Pius IX doesn't deserve to be a saint.
Pius IX, a 19th-century pope who became infamous for ordering the 1858
kidnap of Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish boy who had been forcibly baptized as a
baby, will be beatified by Pope John Paul II on Sept. 3 - the last step
before sainthood.
The protest came in a letter Wednesday from Seymour Reich, chairman of the
International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations to
Archbishop Jose Saraiva Martins, chairman of the Vatican's Congregation for
the ...