NOTES

  1. Declaration Nostra Aetate, N° 4.
  2. HOLY SEE'S COMMISSION FOR RELIGIOUS RELATIONS WITH THE JEWS, We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City 1998, II.
  3. GEORGE WEIGEL, Witness to Hope, the Biography of Pope John Paul II. 1999, p. 38.
  4. Ibidem, p. 484
  5. We Remember, II.
  6. These statements are published together with the Vatican Statement and Reflections by the Bishops' Conference of the United States of America in a booklet Catholics Remember the Holocaust, 1998.
  7. We Remember, V.
  8. Statement by the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee, Prague September 6, 1990, in Information Service of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, 75/IV (1990), 176.
  9.  We Remember, II.
  10. Rabbi Raymond Apple, A.M., R.F.D., "A Remembrance and Reflection on the Holocaust" (Shoah), Sydney 29 July 1999, St. Thomas More Society and the N.S.W. Society of Jewish Jurists and Lawyers.
  11. L'Osservatore Romano, 30 March 2000, VII.
  12. We Remember, II.
  13. Nostra Aetate, 4.
  14. JOHN PAUL II, Warsaw on the 50th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Information Service of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, 84 (1991) 157.
  15. Origins CNS Documentary Service, February 15, 2001, Vol. 30: N° 35, 565-566. My quotations are to be found there.
  16. JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte, Vatican Press, Vatican City 2001, 13.