Today Pope Benedict had a meeting with American Jewish Leaders to discuss once again the seemingly never tiresome topic of Richard Williamson. The Holy Father tried once more to put in no uncertain terms exactly how he felt about the situation.
"It is beyond question that any denial or minimization of this terrible crime is intolerable and altogether unacceptable."Pope Benedict XVI
Ok, I think we get the point. Or at least we should. And we should all be moving forward. However. Some people just cannot seem to do so. In the Jerusalem Post :
He then repeated, verbatim, the prayer Pope John Paul offered when he visited the Western Wall in 2000 and asked the Jews to forgive the Christians who had persecuted them over the centuries. Benedict ended: "I now make his prayer my own."
We welcome this reiteration of the late pope's entreaty. Still, as the Holy Father may know, in Jewish tradition, absolution requires not just the confession of a sin, but its cessation.
Pssssttttt-
Someone tell them Ben's not Jewish!
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