Cardinals among officials dedicating new museum to remember Holocaust

Published: 2005-03-16

JERUSALEM (CNS) -- Under tight security, government officials and dignitaries from 40 countries attended a two-day inauguration of a new Israeli museum designed to keep alive the memory of the Holocaust. Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, Vatican archivist and former foreign minister, led the Vatican delegation at the ceremonies at the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum and told a special assembly Pope John Paul II wanted participants to know of his "spiritual closeness" and the solidarity of the Catholic Church. Pope John Paul visited Yad Vashem during his 2000 trip to the Holy Land. "In acknowledging the immensity of Jewish suffering, we came face to face with the need to be vigilant and to reject indifference," Cardinal Tauran said in his remarks at a special assembly March 16.

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