Pope riles Jews by comparing abortion to Holocaust

[emad]

Sunday, 20 February , 2005, 18:36

Vatican City: A new book by Pope John Paul II to be published in Italy next Wednesday in which he likens abortion to a new Holocaust has outraged Jewish groups appalled by what they say is a lack of understanding on the part of the Catholic Church.

The comparison is highlighted in a passage of the 84-year-old pontiff's fifth book, "Memory and Identity", a volume of reflections on ideological conflicts of the 20th century released to Italian newspapers ahead of its publication here next Wednesday.

The president of the Central Council for Jews in Germany, Paul Spiegel, attacked the passage in which the pontiff links abortion to the mass extermination of six million Jews by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.

Alluding to a similar link made by German Cardinal Joachim Meisner in January, Spiegel said it was an unacceptable comparison".

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13675336

[TahitiNut]

1. I wasn't aware that ...

... anybody was transporting fetuses in box cars, working them to death, and marching them into gas chambers. Who does their tattoos? :eyes: (What a stupid f*cking comparison!)

[Skinner]

2. You posted about this story yesterday.

After a long, contentious discussion, it was locked. Please don't come back 24 hours later and start the exact same discussion.