[BlackVeil]

These demands do not sound polite.

[Williams]

Incredible how they can make the Pope and the Church sound as if they were with the Nazis and teh Holocaust, when nothing could be further from the truth.

Very sad.

Many many priests and nuns died in the Holocaust.

[hellbender]

During the last five years he was criticized for his attempts to canonize Pius XII, who led the Catholic Church at the time of the Holocaust, and his decision to accept a Holocaust-denying bishop back into the Church, as well as his initiative to reintroduce the "prayer for Jews" into Church liturgy.

The idea that Pius XII was passive during the Holocaust has been shown to be false. As for the other charges, Christianity is based on the concept that forgiveness and salvation is available and must be offered to all, Jew and Gentile alike. Of course, atheists are not in sympathy with those views. But then, atheists have no real sympathy with Judaism either. They are simply animated by hate.

[StolarStorm]

A Jewish group just trying to get attention, much like Al Sharpton. That’s all there is to it.

[Uri’el-2012]

Ratzinger does not seem to have a sense of values.

He seem not to know the face of YHvH.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[Cicero]

If you read the article, the speech is NOT scheduled for Yom Kippur.

Good grief, what next with the Pope bashing?

[AAABEST]

These demands do not sound polite.

Some will take every available opportunity to trash the Holy Father and the Church. Most often it's not very polite.

The pope is speaking during a Jewish holiday? Boo-freaking-hoo. Someone should inform them that he's Catholic - not Jewish.

[SuziQ]

What do the Jewish MPs usually do on Fridays, when they need to prepare for the Sabbath? How will the 17th be any different? If they need to leave Parliament in order to prepare, why don't they just plan to leave, whether the Pope's speech is finished, or not?

Sounds like they just want to get some publicity by making a fuss.

[narses]

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[livius]

Oh lordy. I’d bet these are all liberal leftist Jews who barely celebrate Yom Kippur themselves.

I’m sure that if it’s just a few hours, the Vatican will try to accomodate them. But this is such a ridiculous thing.

[sockmonkey]

From the UK's Itinerary site:

He has then been invited, as part of the State visit, to address British society. Representatives of British society will be invited to Westminster Hall to hear the Pope's address.

The Pope was invited, and accepted.Apparently, he didn't set the time of the address at Westminster.