“Shortly before his death in 1963, the spiritual leader of Catholics round the world composed this prayer: “We realize that our brows are branded with the mark of Cain. Centuries long has Abel lain in blood and tears because we have forgotten Thy love. Forgive us the curse which we unjustly laid on the name of the Jews. Forgive us, that with our curse, we crucified Thee a second time.”
It was an awesome admission that reversed almost 2000 years of unjustifiable hatred. Christian anti-Semitism, rationalized as fitting punishment for the Jews guilty of the heinous crime of deicide, killers of Christ, was officially declared “a great sin against humanity.” Jews dared to hope that the distortions of ancient history which prompted Crusades, pogroms and perhaps—as many scholars suggest—even the world’s silence during the Holocaust, were finally put to rest in the dustbin of grievously outdated theological errors.”
It was not to be
How my heart sings 