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To: goldsnow who wrote (11744)	2/21/2002 11:44:13 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Indeed, more "Zionist" conspiracies: observer.co.uk Excerpt: The poster, rather than the film's content, has put the release date in doubt. After protests by French bishops, a right-wing Catholic organisation, called the General Alliance against Racism, opened court proceedings against the film's producers on the grounds that they were involved in 'odious revisionism' and that distribution should be stopped. The Catholic bishops' conference (synod) president, Jean-Pierre Ricard, said that whatever interpretation was given to the Church's role during the war, 'the superimposing of the Christian and Nazi crosses creates an intolerable symbol of the Christian faith allied to Nazi barbary'. Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, a converted Jew and Archbishop of Paris, compared the poster to pro-Nazi graffiti scrawled on synagogues and Jewish graves, but has vetoed court action. His protest was supported by Richard Prasquier, a member of the board for Jewish institutions, CRIF, who said it was wrong 'to play with religious symbols, especially as this opens the way to a dangerous attempt to identify Christianity with Nazism'. Although no explanation was given for official Catholic reluctance to pursue the matter, it is being presumed the Church wanted to avoid a new public debate on its complacent role in France during and after the war. [...] __________________ According to a radio broadcast, several eminent Jewish personalities have rallied around Mgr Lustiger and signed a petition against Costa-Gravas' controversial movie.... Well, that rapprochement between the French Jewry and Archbishop J.-M. Lustiger (a "Jewish traitor") is intriguing, isn't it? Fundraising before the next Vatican election? Anyway, it confirms my guesstimate on the next Pope: Lustiger will likely make it --as Martin VI or Clement XV. Gus