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buy canada goose jacket cheap Pope Francis confirmed the “heroic virtues”of Cardinal August Hlond in late May, which means that he put a stamp of approval on a Vatican body’s initial reviewof the priest’s candidacy for sainthood. The Vatican now needs to confirm Hlond’s involvement in two miracles before the priest, who died in 1948, can become canada goose clearance sale a saint. buy canada goose jacket cheap

cheap Canada Goose Rabbi David Rosen, the AJC’s director of interreligious affairs, criticized Hlond in a letter to the pontifical commissiontasked with maintaining good relations with Jews. cheap Canada Goose

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But Jewish groups believe Hlond’s legacy is tainted by his anti Semitic views. In a 1936 pastoral lettersent to Polish churches, Hlond warned his flock to stay away from the “harmful moral influence of Jews” and to avoid Jewish canada goose coats on sale shops and publications.

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canada goose Philip Cunningham, director of the Institute for Jewish Catholic Relations at Saint Joseph’s University, told HuffPost that Hlond’s views reflected the nearly universal attitude of Christians of that era. It wasn’t until the Second Vatican Council in 1965 that the Catholic Church officially denounced anti Semitism. canada goose

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In addition, the AJC saidHlond failed to publicly speak out against anti Jewish violence in Poland after World War II. During a press conference after a 1946 pogrom in Kielce that left at least canada goose uk outlet 40 Jews dead, canada goose clearance Hlond refused to condemn the attack or urge Poles to stop murdering Jews, Rosen wrote.

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“Jews do not usually speak out about a candidate for Sainthood, but such a move by Pope Francis to elevate a lifelong anti Semite to Sainthood would be shameful,” the center’s canada goose factory sale leaders said in a statement.

Canada Goose Jackets The center also warned that canonizing Hlond would further emboldenfar right, nationalist movements in Poland. Polish lawmakerssparked international criticism in February for passing a law, backed by the right wing Canada Goose online Law and Justice party, that made it a crime to suggest Poland was complicit in the Holocaust. In June, the country’s parliament tweaked the lawto Canada Goose Online ensure that violators would not be imprisoned. Canada Goose Jackets

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Canada Goose Outlet Despite the criticism, Hlond is still a well respected figure in Poland, which is still an overwhelmingly Catholic country. Archbishop Wojciech Polak of Gniezno, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland,tweetedthathe hopedHlond would be “beatified and canonized as soon as possible.” Canada Goose Outlet

canadian goose jacket The Polish Bishops’ Conference insisted in a tweet Thursday that Hlond had saved many Polish, German and French Jews from deportation to death camps and had condemned the Kielce pogrom during a conversation with a Jewish Canada Goose Outlet professor in 1946. canadian goose jacket

As for the accusations towards Card. Hlond for antisemitism, it must be clearly stated that Card. Hlond saved many Jewish people during the II World War and he condemned Kielce pogrom in 1946 we canada goose uk shop read in a statement of Hlond Postulation Office. He told AP that Hlond’s 1936 letter was progressive for its time. Although it contained questionable elements by today’s standards,the letter’s overarching aim was to protect Jews, he said.

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In addition, Koziol said that Hlond was restricted from speaking up about the Kielce pogrom after the war because of Poland’s communist controlled media.

Koziol told the Catholic News Servicethat Hlond’s canonization process could face delays if the Vatican seeks further clarifications about this issue.

Canada Goose sale When a canonization has the potential to generate divisiveness and hostility, the Vatican usually chooses not to move the process further,Cunningham canadian goose jacket said. Canada Goose sale

In 2005,Pope Benedict XVIsuspended the beatificationof French priest Leon Dehon after receiving complaints about canada goose black friday sale Canada Goose Outlet his anti Semitic writings.

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