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World Jewish News
Brothers That Have Found Each Other: Archbishop and Rabbi Open Conference on Catholic-Jewish Dialogue
10.03.2009
An international conference titled "Catholic-Jewish dialogue: how it all started and where we should be going," promoted by the "Jewish center of culture and dialogue," opened in Krakow.
"Today, we know what the unsearchable dimension of evil may cause. The dimension, which can not be minimized by anyone," said Cardinal Stanislaw Dzivish, archbishop of Krakow, while he and Rabbi David Rosen were opening the International conference.
The archbishop spoke of the "darkest side of Jewish history," the tragedy of European Jewry Holocaust, an attempt to "wipe the Jewish people off the face of earth."
"And Hitler intended to commit this genocide on the Polish land, which - in good and evil – the Poles and Jews shared no less than one thousand years," emphasized the cardinal.
It is in Poland that the speech of Benedict XVI, delivered a few days ago, in the presence of several Jewish organizations, sounds very true. The Pope prayed that "the memory of this horrible crime have strengthened our resolve to heal the wounds that had been damaging the relations between Christians and Jews for too long," Vatican radio reports.
Dwelling on this topic, the Archbishop of Krakow stressed: "We want to remember the Holocaust in order to build fraternal relations between Christians and Jews."
Remembering the words of John Paul II during his visit to the Roman synagogue, Cardinal Dzivish said: "We are like brothers who have found each other after a long time."
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