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ROME — Pope Francis met a U.S. special envoy for anti-Semitism Thursday amid the developing war between Israel and Hamas, with the diplomat later saying the pontiff had referred to the surprise attacks that triggered the conflict as “criminal.”
Deborah Lipstadt, who’s served as the United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism since May 22, was in Rome participating in a conference at the Jesuit-sponsored Gregorian University on new documents recently made available by the Vatican from the reign of Pope Pius XII, who led the Catholic Church during the era of the Holocaust and the Second World War.
Lipstadt, 76, met Francis in the Vatican and later posted a picture of the encounter to her Instagram account.
“Today, I had the distinct honor of meeting with His Holiness Pope Francis,” Lipstadt wrote. “We discussed the importance of opening the Pope Pius XII archives to accurately examine history and how we must strengthen Catholic-Jewish relations by addressing antisemitism through education.”
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Deborah Lipstadt, who’s served as the United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism since May 22, was in Rome participating in a conference at the Jesuit-sponsored Gregorian University on new documents recently made available by the Vatican from the reign of Pope Pius XII, who led the Catholic Church during the era of the Holocaust and the Second World War.
Lipstadt, 76, met Francis in the Vatican and later posted a picture of the encounter to her Instagram account.
“Today, I had the distinct honor of meeting with His Holiness Pope Francis,” Lipstadt wrote. “We discussed the importance of opening the Pope Pius XII archives to accurately examine history and how we must strengthen Catholic-Jewish relations by addressing antisemitism through education.”
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US envoy says Pope called Hamas attacks on Israel ‘criminal’
“We also discussed the bone-chilling violence in Israel and expressed our great concern for the brutal terrorist attacks taking place, which Pope Francis described as criminal,” said US envoy Deborah Lipstadt.
