We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah (1998)

The Vatican’s reflection on the Holocaust and on the Church’s duty of memory and repentance.

Published by the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews in March 1998, this document calls the Shoah an unspeakable tragedy and asks Catholics to remember it, to repent of the failures of Christians, and to work so that it can never happen again.

Jewish organizations welcomed it while also raising critical questions, and the debate it opened is part of its importance.

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