![]() ![]() At the same time it asks our Jewish friends to hear us with an open heart. It is addressed to the Catholic faithful throughout the world, not only in Europe where the Shoah took place, hoping that all Christians will join their Catholic brothers and sisters in meditating on the catastrophe which befell the Jewish people, on its causes, and on the moral imperative to ensure that never again such a tragedy will happen. In the words which His Holiness wrote in his letter to me as President of the Commission, it is our fervent hope "that the document will help to heal the wounds of past misunderstandings and injustices".1 This document, which contains a reflection on the Shoah, is another step on the path marked out by the Second Vatican Council in our relations with the Jewish people. Today it publishes another document, which the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews has prepared at the express request of His Holiness Pope John Paul II. 4: the 1974 Guidelines and Suggestions and the 1985 Notes on the Correct Way to Present the Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Catechesis in the Catholic Church. The Holy See has to date published, through its Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, two significant documents intended for the application of the Second Vatican Council's Declaration Nostra Aetate, n. Presentation by Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy We publish here Cardinal Cassidy's presentation of the document, along with Pope John Paul II's letter to the Cardinal about the document, and the text itself. Joining him in the presentation were Bishop Pierre Duprey, Vice President of the Commission, and Father Remi Hoeckmann, O.P., its Secretary. At a press conference on March 16, 1998, Cardinal Cassidy, President of the Holy See's Commission For Religious Relations With the Jews, presented for publication the document, We Remember: A Reflection On The Shoah.
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