Poland - Bishop apologizes for Holocaust remarks
A retired Polish bishop who said "the Shoah as such is a Jewish invention" has apologized for the remark in a statement published by the Roman Catholic information agency in Poland.
"Of course my unfortunate statement, which was the result of a mental shortcut, does not express my views," Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek said in the statement published by the KAI agency.
In his apology Monday, Pieronek said he "was thinking of the word, the expression, the term 'Shoah' that American Nobel laureate and Jewish writer Elie Wiesel used to call the genocide against Jews."
"The author of the idea and the perpetrator of this unheard of genocide was Hitler's Germany," Pieronek said.
"I apologise very much to Mr. Bruno Volpe personally and to all those who were offended by my unfortunate and unintentional statement," Pieronek said, naming a pontifex.roma.it editor who published the controversial interview with him.
Source: http://www.ejpress.org/
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