The World - News from Sept. 6, 1989
The World Jewish Congress accused the Vatican of engaging in “unseemly misrepresentation” by saying Pope John Paul II has not taken a position on a controversial convent at the site of the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp in Poland. WJC Vice President Kalman Sultanik said that remarks by Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro have contradicted previous statements by John Paul and Cardinal Jan Willebrands, who oversees Catholic-Jewish relations for the Pope. Sultanik said that in a speech to Austrian Jews in June, 1988, the Pope had praised a 1987 Catholic-Jewish agreement on moving the Carmelite convent. Sultanik said Willebrands also stressed the Pope’s support for the plan in a meeting with Jewish leaders in New York last May.
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