Rabbi She'ar Yashuv Cohen, who addressed the Synod of Bishops on Monday, told the Jerusalem Post that he would not have addressed the synod if he had known that Pope Benedict XVI would offer a Mass commemorating the 50th anniversary of Pope Pius XII’s death.Although Pope Pacelli may have helped many refugees in secret... he should have spoken up much more strongly than he did against the Holocaust,’ Haifa’s chief rabbi said.
In additional comments to the Jerusalem Post, Rabbi David Rosen, chairman of the International Jewish Committee for Inter-religious Consultations, called for a suspension of Pope Pius XII’s beatification process while Holocaust survivors are alive.
‘If the Catholic Church wishes a respectful relationship with the Jewish people, sensitivity toward Jewish sensibilities is appropriate,’ including ‘suspension of any action [toward sainthood for Pius] as long as survivors of the Shoah are still with us,’ he said.
Eugene Fisher, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops official who for decades helped shape US Catholic-Jewish relations until his 2007 retirement, said he agreed with Rabbi Rosen’s request.
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