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Rebutting the Professor
In defense of what Pope Benedict said during his visit to Auschwitz.
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p>Not to be outdone, a reader named Jason offered a summary of
this contretemps that I cannot myself improve upon:
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I think the pope may have spoken inartfully at times to the Jewish ear — but the Jewish ear listens for very different things than the devout Catholic ear. This difference is especially huge when it’s a secular Jew listening to a decidedly unsecular Pope.br> Amen to that.
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