Auschwitz confirmation

CARDINAL Jozef Glemp has confirmed his willingness to relocate the Carmelite Convent at Auschwitz in Poland. His letter to Sir Sigmund Sternberg, Chairman of the International Council of Christians and Jews, is the first time the Polish Primate has given a written commitment to uphold the 1987 Geneva Declaration which aimed to resolve the dispute.
"It is essential," he wrote to Sir Sigmund, "not only to move the convent outside the perimeter of the site, but also to set up the new cultural centre, This will help us to continue the dialogue which is so dear to us."
Until last week Cardinal Glemp had insisted that Jews would have to come to terms with the presence of the nuns at the former death camp unless they eventually agreed to move voluntarily. Jewish demonstrations at the presence of the convent had caused a great deal of ill feeling and misunderstanding, the cardinal said, but Sir Sigmund stated that Moderate Jews did not approve of such tactics, and that "aggression is not part of the Jewish philosophy".
In emphasising his anxiety to work towards a friendly dialogue between Christians and Jews, Cardinal Glemp announced during a pastoral visit to Bristol last week that plans were under way to build alternative accommodation for the nuns at Oswiecim, near the site of the former death camp. "The best solution... would be for work to start as soon as possible," he said. HUNGARY and the Vatican say they are willing to re-establish diplomatic relations, broken after World War 11 with the coming to power of a Stalinist government in Budapest. Such a move would make Hungary the second Soviet-bloc European country to forge links with the Vatican this year, after Poland established official relations this summer.
In a letter to Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, the Vatican secretary of state, Hungarian Premier Miklos Nemeth talked of improved relations between the party and the Church. Church leaders were recently invited to Parliament for a meeting with Rerso Nyers, the Hungarian Communist party president. Nyers urged the party and the Church to draw a clear line between the past disagreements and present circumstances.
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