NEVER AGAIN THE ERRORS OF RACIAL, ETHNIC, AND RELIGIOUS HATRED

VATICAN CITY STATE, JAN 28, 2001 (VIS) - This morning, before the recitation of the angelus with the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father extended a special greeting to the 8,000 young boys and girls of Rome's Catholic Action movement who are celebrating the Day of Peace.
"The Church depends upon you," the Holy Father said, "so that humanity no longer know the aberrations of racial, ethnic, and religious hatred." He then recalled that yesterday Italy celebrated the "'Day of Memory', an act expressly instituted so that the horrors of the Shoah and of every other human aberration, resulting from the refusal of dialogue between differing cultures and religions, not be forgotten."

John Paul II expressed his desire that the doves which two representatives of Catholic Action released from the window of his study, following an annual tradition, would be "a sign of solidarity and peace for the new year just begun."

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