VATICAN CITY: Encouraged by progress in Jewish-Catholic relations, an American Jewish group asked Pope John Paul II to write an encyclical enshrining church opposition to anti Semitism.
The pope listened to me very patiently.” American Jewish Committee President Robert Rifkind said, adding that John Paul promised that the request will be very carefully studied in the Vatican. An encyclical is reserved for the most important papal declarations.
The New York-based group also urged the pope to grant Jewish scholars and Catholic historians access to documents about the Holocaust contained in Vatican archives.
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