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Crucial Endeavor: Catholic-Jewish Relations
November 6, 2002
Walter Kasper cardinal, German theologian

German theologian Cardinal Walter Kasper, the president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, seeks to clarify the Church's position on several controversial issues. Among them, the Church's history of forced conversion of the Jews, and the contemporary debate over the proposed canonization of Pope Pius XII, accused by some of failing to oppose the Holocaust.

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Image of Jesus the Christ
Author: Walter Cardinal Kasper
Publisher: Paulist Press (1976)
Binding: Paperback, 290 pages
Image of The God of Jesus Christ
Author: Walter Kasper
Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company (1986)
Binding: Paperback, 404 pages
Image of That They May All Be One: The Call to Unity Today
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Publisher: Continuum International Publishing (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 208 pages
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Binding: Hardcover, 240 pages
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Binding: Hardcover, 192 pages
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