Pope Benedict XVI has told Jewish leaders that any denial of the Holocaust is intolerable and unacceptable, especially if a priest does it.
Benedict just said during a meeting at the Vatican with about 60 American Jewish leaders that he is preparing to visit Israel.
The audience was scheduled after Benedict lifted the excommunication of a traditionalist bishop who denied the Holocaust, sparking outrage among Catholics and Jews alike.
Rabbi Arthur Schneier is leading the delegation. The rabbi is a Holocaust survivor and was host to the pope at his synagogue in New York in April.
Before todays meeting Schneier said he wants to thank Benedict for his commitment to strong Catholic-Jewish ties.
Schneier said the controversy was a temporary setback to relations between the two religions.
The Vatican says Benedict did not know about the views of Bishop Richard Williamson when he agreed to lift his excommunication and that of three other ultraconservative bishops last month.
The German-born Benedict issued his strongest condemnation yet of Holocaust denial during the meeting. He called the Holocaust a crime against humanity and affirmed the Catholic Church was "profoundly and irrevocably committed to reject all anti-Semitism."
(Source: AP)
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