In this New York Times Magazine article, Paul Elie examines how Pope John Paul II has used the turn of the millennium, and the Catholic Church's celebration of a year of Jubilee, to reflect on Christian-Jewish relations, particularly in reference to the Holocaust. Elie discusses how the Second Vatican Council's Nostra Aetate document profoundly shifted the relationship between the Catholic Church and Judaism in a positive direction. Nonetheless, John Paul II remains haunted by the actions - or lack thereof - taken by Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust, and the article concludes with a reflection on what an official papal apology might mean for the next century of Christian-Jewish relations.
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