Above and beyond giving a mea culpa, John Paul II will attempt to frame what the church means by a mea culpa. His belief that the church strengthens itself through a frank acknowledgment of past...

There’s been a movement over the past decade to begin looking very seriously at the ways in which the Holocaust has been ‘marketed’ and used in support of contemporary political goals. As difficult as that...

He’s stopped apologizing and is talking about what ought to be. And whether or not that’s sufficient for some Jewish critics, it’s extraordinarily powerful and consistent with the very best of what he’s tried to...

The Jewish Anti-Defamation League is unhappy with what’s contained in ‘Memory and Reconciliation,’ because they believe it still fails to admit the church’s corporate responsibility for any complicity in the Holocaust. It lays the blame...

Even when they released the ‘Memory and Reconciliation’ document, the Vatican made clear that there were different camps inside the church, some of whom felt the church was going too far in its apology and...

The pope has long promised to lead the church in coming to terms with some of its sins on the occasion of the Jubilee. For him, it’s the culmination of many years of work, as...