Comments made by Archbishop Dadeus Grings of Porto Alegre. (Bad News).
Comments made by Archbishop Dadeus Grings of Porto Alegre, Brazil
about victims of the Holocaust have provoked protest from Brazil's
Jewish population.
Although originally published in 2001, Grings' remarks were
reprinted recently on a Catholic Web site. He said there were 1 million
Jewish Holocaust victims (most historians agree the number is closer to
6 million) and that Christians were the "great victims."
Israel's ambassador to Brazil lodged a complaint to the
Vatican's nuncio to Brazil, while several rabbis complained,
Catholic News Service reports.
In a letter to the Brazilian bishops Grings said he was
"surprised at the commotion since there was no reaction when I
wrote the article two years ago."
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