Pope Francis employed his strongest rhetoric to date Wednesday in condemning Russia’s war on Ukraine, tying it to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people during World War II.
ROME — to Polish pilgrims following his weekly General Audience, the pontiff recalled that last Monday, the Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations at the Catholic University of Lublin commemorated the anniversary of Operation Reinhardt, codename for the secret Nazi plan in 1941-1943 to annihilate Polish Jews in German-occupied Poland
“During the Second World War, it caused the extermination of almost two million victims, mainly of Jewish origin,” the pope declared. “May the memory of this horrible event arouse in all of us resolutions and actions of peace.” Francis went on to say that “history repeats itself, repeats itself. Now let’s see what is happening in Ukraine. Let us pray for peace.”
Pope Francis met with a delegation of Orthodox Christians from the Patriarchate of Constantinople Thursday in which he condemned Russia’s “war of aggression” against Ukraine.
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