The Pope visited Jerusalem recently. Critics say he did not appear compassionate or contrite about the Holocaust. They wanted the Pope to apologize for the Catholic Church's complicity with or indifference to the Nazi death camps. I remember reading how guards would attend Mass on Sunday morning and exterminate Jews in the afternoon. (Of course, I imagine many guards were Protestants, too.)
It took the Catholic Church centuries to apologize for its treatment of Galileo, who had the audacity to proclaim that the earth revolves around the sun, rather than the other way around, as the Bible indicates.
This Pope, who was a member of the Hitler Youth (yikes!), is apparently not about to apologize anytime soon for the Catholic Church's role in the Holocaust. Too bad.
