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HOLOCAUST MUSEUM IS "A WARNING, A WITNESS, AN APPEAL"

VATICAN CITY, MAR 17, 2005 (VIS) - Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, librarian of
Holy Roman Church, arrived in Jerusalem on March 15 to attend, as the Holy
Father's representative, the inauguration of the new Holocaust History Museum
at Yad Vashem Mausoleum. His speech, given yesterday morning, was published
today.

He assured the audience of "the spiritual closeness of Pope John Paul II, as
well as the solidarity of the Catholic Church." The Pope visited Yad Vashem on
March 23, 2000 during his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. It is a monument to the
memory of victims of the Holocaust and contains, among other things, several
urns of ashes of victims from various concentration camps.

"The building that we have just inaugurated," added Cardinal Tauran, "is, for
the whole world, a warning, a witness and an appeal. In acknowledging the
immensity of Jewish suffering, we come face to face with the obligation to be
vigilant, with the need to reject indifference and with the terrifying void of
a world without God."

Quoting from the Pope's Message of January 15, 2005, for the celebration of the
60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration
camp, he stated that "Pope John Paul II repeats once again this morning to all
those who are willing to listen that when we remember the 'horrible crime
committed against the Jewish nation' that was the Holocaust, we do so because
'these terrible events are for contemporary men and women a summons to
responsibility, in order to build our history'."

"The Catholic Church," affirmed Cardinal Tauran, "respecting the uniqueness of
Judaism and remaining linked in faith to its heritage, teaches that there is no
place or reason for the hatred of Jews. This would be a sin against God and
humanity."
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