THE POPE GOES TO AUSCHWITZ

Pope Benedict will be visiting the Nazi death camp. In a way this is good, in a part of the world where anti-semitism is still not dead. But is there perhaps just a bit of hypocracy here? The papacy had signed a Concordat with the Nazis prior to World War Two which, according to many critics, facilitated their establishment of absolute power. It has also been established that the Vatican was a conduit through which high ranking Nazis made their way to South America. Over the centuries the Church has actively promoted anti-semitism by spreading the falsehood that the Jews killed Jesus.

Should the Pope not apologize?