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{weblog_name} - Baltimore Archbishop’s Shining Moment
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The quiet talk in Baltimore’s renown interfaith dialogue circles in recent years has often gravitated toward how Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien – while far from an obstacle –seemed uninterested in the rapprochement of the religious communities. That was a sharp contrast to the work of his immediate predecessor, Cardinal William H. Keeler, the Vatican’s respected North American point man on Catholic-Jewish ties. But in recent weeks, Archbishop O’Brien’s actions should be applauded for reversing that notion. In a candid address to the Baltimore Jewish Council on March 24, he did not flinch when asked about the controversial process toward sainthood of World War II-era Pope Pius XII, whom some criticize for inaction in the face of the Nazi Holocaust. Now with Vatican archives being opened – too slowly for some Catholic and Jewish scholars – “there may have been… read more