JERUSALEM (CWNews.com) - Aharon Lopez, the Israeli ambassador to the Holy See, told a Roman news agency that he wept freely when he visited the Holocaust museum with Pope John Paul II on March 22.
«I have been to Yad Vashem more than 100 times, but each time is always like the first, and I am not ashamed to weep there,» Lopez told the I Media agency. He repeated that the Pope's appearance there was «very moving. very moving.»
«I am not one of those who tells the Pope what he should say,» Lopez said. He pointed out that the Pontiff himself had confessed that there are no words adequate to convey the horror of the Holocaust. However, Lopez went on to say the Pope John Paul had made an enormous personal contribution to the relationship between Christians and Jews.
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