Language:
French
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Les Cahiers de la Mémoire Contemporaine
Angaben zur Quelle:
9 (2009-2010) 89-134
Keywords:
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1945-
;
History
;
Judaism Relations 1945-
;
Christianity
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Discusses why the Belgian Church, unlike the churches in France, Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands, did not express repentance toward the Jews before Pope John Paul II issued his declaration "We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah" in 1998. States that, after World War II, there was a national consensus in Belgium that the Church had done its duty toward the Jews and no repentance was required. When the question reemerged in the late 1990s, the Church was slow to react. The Belgian Commission nationale catholique pour les Relations avec le Judaïsme (CNCJ) wished to respond to the papal declaration, but certain bishops resisted, there was widespread fear of facing historical reality, the Jewish community exerted little or no pressure, and there was general concern about maintining a peaceful climate. The CNJC finally convinced the Belgian bishops to add a few sentences of apology to an episcopal letter in 2000. Also views Belgian "cautiousness" as lying behind the Church's slow, modest reaction.
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