ROME (AP) — Pope Francis marked Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday by warning that warped ideologies can pave the way to another mass extermination.
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Francis spoke off the cuff at the end of his weekly general audience, held in his private library because of coronavirus restrictions, to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, where Nazis killed more than 1 million Jews and others.
In all, about 6 million European Jews and millions of other people were killed by the Germans and their collaborators.
The Argentine pope insisted on the need to remember, saying it was a sign of humanity and a condition for a peaceful future. But he said remembering “also means to be aware that these things can happen again, starting with ideological proposals that claim to save a people and end up destroying a people and humanity.”
He warned that the Holocaust began that way, opening “this path of death, extermination and brutality.”
Francis prayed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial during his 2016 visit to Poland.
Before everyone gets all excited about how the Catholics should have been better to Jews during WW II, perhaps they should consider how the Zionists should have been better to Jews during WW II?
The galach preaching about mass extermination is like the head of neo nazis preaching this garbage. So ling as you represent a religon that has persecuted us for nearly 2000 years and is responsible for millions upon millions of our deaths which paved the way for nazism you are a jokster and a fraud.
Did he talk about the Vatican’s role in the holocaust?
his holiness, not !!, didn’t mention all the ‘good’ christians who helped the nazis. what a surprise ! not !!
nor, that one word from the then pope, and millions would have helped the jews