Turkey Reinstates Ambassador to Holy See Following Vatican Statement

ANKARA, Turkey (A.W.)—The Turkish ambassador to the Vatican, Mehmet Paçacı, returned to his post at the Holy See on Feb. 4, after a 10-month absence following the historic Mass held by Pope Francis in honor of the Centenary of the Armenian Genocide on April 12, 2015.

Turkish ambassador to the Vatican, Mehmet Paçacı
Turkish Ambassador to the Vatican Mehmet Paçacı

Turkey summoned the Vatican’s ambassador in Ankara after Pope Francis, during the April 2015 Mass, remembered the Armenian Genocide, spoke about the consequences of forgetting and denial, and proclaimed the Armenian Saint Gregory of Narek a “Doctor of the Church.”

Tanju Bilgiç, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, said the decision for the ambassador’s return came after the Holy See praised Turkey’s willingness to open its archives in a statement on Feb. 3.

A scene from the Holy Mass on April 12, 2015
A scene from the Holy Mass on April 12, 2015

“[T]he repeated commitment of Turkey to make its archives available to historians and researchers of interested parties in order to arrive jointly at a better understanding of historical events and the pain and suffering endured by all parties, regardless of their religious or ethnic identity, caught up in war and conflict, including the tragic events of 1915, is noted and appreciated. The painful events of history should not be forgotten; instead they require careful examination and reflection so that they may lead to the healing and purification of memory so necessary for reconciliation and forgiveness for individuals and peoples, as St. John Paul II affirmed,” read part of the Feb. 3 statement by the press office of the Holy See.

Bilgiç, who called the Vatican statement a “positive development,” also hailed the fact that it condemned the “violence and terror” in reference to Taha Carım, the Turkish ambassador to the Holy See, who was killed in 1977.

“It is stated in the [Vatican] press release that our commitment to open the archives for historians and researchers so as to better understand the history and suffering concerning the events of 1915, thereby our offer for a Joint Historical Commission, has been appreciated. It is also noted that violence and terror are condemned with reference to the memory of late Taha Carım, the Turkish ambassador to the Holy See, who was martyred in 1977,” Bilgiç said.

“Within this scope, it has been decided that our ambassador to the Holy See Mr. Mehmet Paçacı, who has been in Ankara for consultations since the Mass held at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican on 12 April 2015, is to return to his post,” he added.

During last April’s historic Mass, which was also attended by Catholicoi Karekin II and Aram I, along with the late Patriarch Catholicos Nerses Bedros XIX, Pope Francis spoke about the three major tragedies of the past century. “The first, which is widely considered ‘the first genocide of the 20th century,’ struck your own Armenian people, the first Christian nation, as well as Catholic and Orthodox Syrians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Greeks,” said Pope Francis.

During the April 2015 Mass, Pope Francis condemned the failure to remember and the act of denial, which he said only kept wounds festering and bleeding.
During the April 2015 Mass, Pope Francis condemned the failure to remember and the act of denial, which he said only keeps wounds festering and bleeding.

In strong terms, Pope Francis condemned the failure to remember and the act of denial, which he said only kept wounds festering and bleeding. “Dear Armenian Christians, today, with hearts filled with pain but at the same time with great hope in the risen Lord, we recall the centenary of that tragic event, that immense and senseless slaughter whose cruelty your forebears had to endure,” he said, stressing, “It is necessary, and indeed a duty, to honor their memory, for whenever memory fades, it means that evil allows wounds to fester. Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it!”

 

34 Comments

  1. We are coming back to the same issue: Western countries talk about the need for freedom of expression and its practice in a democratic environment, respect for human rights , the need to fight corruption and the necessity of recognizing past mistakes as a way of moving forward. All these are part of the rhetoric but when it comes to Turkey, its “strategic” importance, it membership in Nato, the Injirlik air base, and the “positive” role this country can play in resolving regional problems and conflicts ( mostly of its own creation) suddenly all these noble and moral considerations evaporate and “pragmatism” takes center stage.So, we must stop giving credence to any/all public pronouncements of support on the recognition of Armenian Genocide and create conditions for the fulfillment of our objectives ( if we know what they are and how to go about it achieving them).Remember that the 19th century policy of colonialist patronage is gone and we have now a new sort of animal called the rule of international corporations and global business interests that do not particularly enjoy the challenges posed by “trouble makers” with national agendas.

    • {we have now a new sort of animal called the rule of international corporations and global business interests that do not particularly enjoy the challenges posed by ‘trouble makers’ with national agendas.}

      Good point. It’s not just an animal. It’s the devil. The issue of the Armenian Genocide, which, if recognized my major world players and/or international courts making Turkey liable for material compensations and land retributions, has an enormous latent potential to redraw the map of the Middle East, a region so vital for multinational corporations and their behind-the-scene string-pullers.

      Some small minds posting here may rush to discredit your point as a “conspiracist” theory…

  2. The first major tragedy of the last century, which is widely considered “the first genocide of the 20th century…”………………….. This sentence of the Pope bothers me deeply, especially when I saw that it got “widely considered as Recognition By The Pope”. Do I have language-understanding difficulties?????

  3. If anybody denies the Genocide should be stupid or ignorant. Stupid, because this is the most big criminal event of the past Century. Ignorance is when somebody has no education about history and the past criminal events. My late father told us what happened to him and his mother, when the Turkish soldiers jammed the Area’s Armenian population in the church and put the fire, then one of them came to my Grand’ma, who was pregnant, open the belly of my Grand’ma and took the unborn baby out and killed him and the Mother as well. Then coming back to my four years old father, he plunged his dagger on his waist and threw him to the ground. Seeing him crying, he came back and repeated this action for three consecutive times. When he came back to hit my father for the fourth time, the old man who was there pushed the soldier away telling him: “The kid is already dead. What do you want more”. Then he picked my father and run to the American Hospital, where my father was saved.

  4. who needs turks, who needs their archives. I mean, really.
    isn’t all the books, all the historians from different countries spell things out clearly enough.
    harut sassounian wrote an interesting article about the fact that the turks in power at that time had admitted to the atrocities on the Armenian people, he also stated that reparations are in order and should begin…. what are we waiting for.

  5. Hello, Stepan and John.

    I am Turkish and I agree with you.

    It is such a shame for me as a Turkish citizen that the governments of Turkey keep denying the genocide.

    People like me are still in the minority in Turkey (maybe only about 20 percent of the population) ; but just know that we exist, and we feel very sad and angry about all this.

    Regards.

    • 20 percent is a bit generous. There’s certainly a decent sized segment of society that don’t hate Armenians, but I’d most most belong in the “shared suffering,” “the past is the past let’s work towards a peaceful future” crowd. And that’s certainly a start and it’s encouraging but it’s been 101 years. It’s just not good enough.

      But I do agree without about feeling shame about the governments actions. None of were alive during the Armenian genocide and for the events that happened I don’t think we should feel *personally* ashamed. But our government denying the Armenian genocide in 2016 is a reflection of our society, of us. And for that we should be ashamed. I know I am.

    • “None of were alive during the Armenian genocide and for the events that happened I don’t think we should feel *personally* ashamed. But our government denying the Armenian genocide in 2016 is a reflection of our society, of us.”

      From an Armenian perspective on this, when the current Turkish government, composed of people who were not alive during the genocide, are denying their own history, they are defending the crime. They are siding with the crime. Because so much “justification” is used when denying the genocide.

  6. What archives?
    The discriminating information about the Armenian Genocde has been removed already.
    Who is fooling who?

  7. Turkish Ambassador to Vatikan is right. Almost all Turkish archives are open. Many scholars including important Armenian scholars have studied and benefited from the precious Ottoman documents.
    Armenians must also take the courage and face with their Anatolian history by opening all their archives in Yerevan and abroad including those in Boston and elsewhere to all researchers including the Turkish academicians.
    It is also of utmost importance to find and open to the use of all scholars the archives of the Armenian Patriarchate which had been hastily smuggled out of İstanbul at the time of imperialist powers’ i.e. the British and the French occupation.

    • There are several Turkish archives and only least important ones have been open to researchers in general. The Ottoman archives, despite it’s name is not the most important. It’s the military archives that is of greater values. But as has been mentioned, it’s not clear if the archives have been tempered with or not. Given the veracity of Turkish resistance to deny their own history, it’s not hard to imagine they would destroy parts of their own archives.

      As for the Armenian archives, what do you think is there? If anything there would be more documentation of massacres of Armenians. And of Greeks and Assyrians.

      Good luck with your wishful thinking.

  8. Worse than that, Turkey has “rewritten” history and corresponding documents and that is what they would bring to the table. There is no benefit to meeting with them on this topic. The debate is over.

  9. How do you know? How can you be so sure just on the face of it? How can you agree with something that you really have not studied. If you have, then tell us. But, the more pertinent question is why (if I may get personal) you, Izmirlian from Izmir, do not open up your own archives in Yerevan and Boston? Almost all of Turkish archives have been open for a long time, and are even available on the internet. Just google “Ottoman Archives” and you will come across many sites, and in fact with photocopies of the original documents in Ottoman and their translations.

  10. Someone please send the reinstated Turkish ambassador to the Vatican a copy of the book published in 2008 entitled:
    HISTORY’S MONSTERS 101 VILLAINS FROM VLAD THE IMPALER TO ADOLF HITLER. Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore. ISBN 978-1-4351-0937-7. On pages 207-208, the Turkish ambassador will find Talat Pasha speaking in his own words: Two instances: The first: In 1915 when he told an official at the German embassy that the Ottoman government was ‘taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal enemies, the indigenous Christians.’ And the second instance: in 1918, ‘What on earth do you want. The question is settled. There are no more Armenians’.’ Talat responding to questioning about the Armenians from the German ambassador.
    Happy reading, Mr. Ambassador and a great big EFERIM to all of the toadies working in the Turkish archives.
    Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut

  11. Are the turks so stupid as to keep the evidence in their archives? is the vatican serious enough to understand what the turkish authorities are all about? the destruction would have been carried out a long time ago and the convenience of opening the archives now is just a token, but the truth remains in the shredders and the memory of those who were involved in the mass killings of innocent nationals of various ethnic groups and in particular the Armenians. The Truth always remains no matter what the turks say. The turks are playing games. I am surprised at the Vatican but at the same time congratulate the Pope for speaking the TRUTH and acknowledging the GENOCIDE.

    • There was destruction of documents as the Ottomans lost the war. So from the start there was an issue of missing and destroyed documents.

  12. Right, I’m sure turkey is hanging around waiting to open their archives which are filled with evidence incriminating themselves….

  13. Am I missing something??? A Turk, (“Anti-fascist”) apparently in Turkey, Steps forward, comes to this board, expresses solidarity with the victims of the Genocide and NO ONE praises nor recognizes him/her?

    The best people can do is quibble with him about the percentage of Turks in Turkey who feel as he/she does? Do his words” but just know that we exist, and we feel very sad and angry about all this. does ” mean nothing?

    I am somewhat ashamed at the people on this Board who have failed to recognize this person of good will and good conscience and repeat back to him that he “is in turn, not alone”.

    Being a victim is bad enough, but it takes on a new dimension of dehumanization when an expression of regret and solidarity by a contemporary citizen of Turkey goes unacknowledged and apparently unappreciated.

    THANK this person for stepping forward and recognize their courage.

    • {…The best people can do is quibble with him about the percentage of Turks …}

      The individual who “quibbled” with the Turk guest [Anti_fascist] is himself a Turk (RVDV). So I don’t see what your issue is here with Armenian posters.

      {… recognize their courage.}

      What courage ? The individual is posting anonymously: how is his life in danger posting something @ArmenianWeekly, a web site in United States?

      Armenians at large and here AW have always recognized and thanked brave public Turk figures, such as Ragip Zarakolu and AW columnist Ayse Gunaysu , who live in Turkey and are placing themselves in danger by publicly speaking out against the Anti-Armenian denialists in Turkey.
      So please.

      {….a new dimension of dehumanization …}

      Aren’t you being a little overdramatic with this?

  14. Avery:

    It does not matter that the person who quibbled is a Turk or not, The Issue is that NONE of the posters on this board took the opportunity to THANK this person for their expression of Regret and solidarity. That is counter productive and beneath the dignity of the people who are on this Board.

    The fact that Anti-fascist posted anonymously is not relevant. Moreover, It does not take much to penetrate these boards by a Government determined to learn the identity of a poster. The fact that Armenians and others have thanked Turkish publlc figures is laudable on both sides, but this individual ALSO deserves thanks and support.
    Want to support those Turks of good conscience who stand up and are willing to say what needs to be said? Want to actually INCREASE the numbers of Turks willing to acknowledge the Genocide? THEN RECOGNIZE THEM and THANK THEM.. They are attempting to heal YOUR wounds and theirs.
    When people are unable to recognize and acknowledge the people who are part of the group who perpetrated Genocide, being blinded by grief or hatred, YES this is evidence of deHumanization and of a further injury that has been inflicted.

    “Overdramatic”? This effect cannot be overemphasized. Dehumanization is a terrible requirement and here, effect of Genocide.

    • 1.{It does not matter that the person who quibbled is a Turk or not,}
      Yes it does: don’t change your story.Your original posts said:{The best people can do is quibble with him about the percentage of Turks}.
      ‘People’, as in plural. You falsely accused the multitudes in this thread of quote “quibbling” with percentages.
      I showed that your accusation was false.
      Now that you were caught in a falsehood, you are trying to change your story.Nothing doing.

      2.{It does not take much to penetrate these boards by a Government determined…}
      Sure it does: if the Turkish government is trying to penetrate a web site based in US. And you really think what the Turk poster wrote is important enough to attempt such a thing by Turkish Gov ? US is not Turkey. And the poster is not that important.

      3.{They are attempting to heal YOUR wounds and theirs.}
      No, they are attempting to heal THEIR whatever.
      We can take care of our healing ourselves.
      And being around for some time as an Armenian, and having daily contact with Armenians, I can happily report that pretty much all of us are fully “healed”. Now we are working on the next phase: how to get justice.

      And very noble about the Turks attempting to “heal” our “wounds” and all that. But “Where is the beef?”, as they say.
      How many of those “healing” Turks are willing to leave our lands and disgorge our ancestors’ wealth stolen by their ancestors they themselves have been living on and enjoying all these years.
      Talk is cheap.

      If someone _accidentally_ ran into you with his car and you lost your legs, I am sure if he said “Sorry, I sincerely apologize. I feel your pain”, you’d be fully “healed”: Yes ?
      You would not want compensation for your loss.
      Correct ?

    • {THEN RECOGNIZE THEM and THANK THEM [Turks willing to acknowledge the Genocide, that is]. They are attempting to heal YOUR wounds and theirs.}

      Poster ‘Avery’ has made an exhaustive reply to you about “healing” our wounds, but where exactly in the comment by poster ‘Anti_fascist’ does he attempt to actually acknowledge the genocide? Correct me if I’m wrong, but all I see in his comment is that (a) he’s ashamed that the governments of Turkey keep denying the genocide, and (b) he’s in the minority in Turkey, but want us to know that they exist, feel sad and angry about genocide denial.

      I’m sorry, but I only see the words ‘shame’, ‘sadness’ and ‘anger’ in this post. Much as I’d like to, I see nothing remotely suggesting that Turkish poster ‘Anti_fascist’ actually says that he (a) acknowledges the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by his ancestors, (b) repents for the crime of his ancestors against the Armenian people, and (c) calls for the government of Turkey to make material compensations and land retributions to the descendants of the victims.

      Being ashamed, sad and angry and being remorseful, repentant and just are two different things. And if you, Turks, really think that we, Armenians, one of the most ancient nations inhabiting the Earth, don’t understand such nuances, you only delude and devalue yourselves with that…

  15. I do not know who you are but you seem to like to twist the facts when your arguments do not hold water.
    You completely twisted my words. There is no “Falsehood” I Said that it does not matter if the Person who made the Quibble is a Turk or not. WHAT is it that you cannot understand???

    BTW do not make such accusations about falsehoods so fast. As it turns out YOU are incorrect.

    The ONLY way that you could show a falsehood here is IF you could show that ANYONE could do better than Quibble with percentages and Praise this person SO FAR.. No one HAS done so, So you are mistaken.
    2. You obviously do NOT know what you are Talking about. I have been at this for YEARS and I can tell you that Governments, including the Turkish government can with EASE find out who you are on this Board. You KNOW what is and isn’t important to the Turkish government? Please!

    3. That is really rich> Because YOU are an Armenian you can speak for ALL (or pretty much all) Armenians?? Pretty Impressive. You know that Armenians are pretty much Healed?

    I have been around Armenians my whole life, and I can tell you that NO, especially older Armenians are NOT healed. If they were, there would not be so much pain in discussing these events. Ever meet an Armenian who is NOT pained by recounting these events??? Unfortunately, I haven’t.

    We are on the same side here; I am not looking to have a fight with one of the people whom I hold in the highest esteem, Listen to someone whom I think is older than you…. Learn that healing begins with learning to hear positive things from you adversaries; there ARE people who are Turkish who understand Clearly what happened. IF you ever want to get further in your cause, one thing is to LEARN to support those on the other side who at some risk, speak the TRUTH.

    THINK of what is possible If Armenians and Turks are able to work together to the TRUTH. It May not be possible…… but IF it is…… All things then become possible.

    I do not have the time to respond further. I respect your enthusiasm and sense of justice but do not lash out and make accusations, esp. against allies, that you cannot substantiate.

    Best regards.

    • 1. {I do not know who you are but you seem to like to twist the facts when your arguments do not hold water.}

      I do not know who YOU are either. But unlike you, I am an Armenian, was born in Armenia, and have been posting @AW looooong before ‘The Greek’ started posting. One thing for sure: we don’t need a lecture about what to do or not to do from The Greek, A Greek, or anybody else.

      2. {That is really rich> Because YOU are an Armenian you can speak for ALL (or pretty much all) Armenians?? Pretty Impressive. You know that Armenians are pretty much Healed?}

      No richer than you: given your own necessarily limited experience with Armenians, given that you are NOT Armenian, you presume to have fully psychoanalyzed a whole ethnos and proceed to lecture us here about some baloney about “healing” ? Really.

      3.{I have been around Armenians my whole life, and I can tell you that NO, especially older Armenians are NOT healed}

      So have I. In Armenia, in Europe, in US. Been around Armenians from Armenia, Armenians from Artsakh, Armenians from Syria, Armenians from Lebanon, Armenians from Iran, from Latin America, from Europe,from Russia…..you name it. My whole life. My extended family has Armenians from Armenia and the Diaspora from all over the world: in-laws, & blood relatives.
      And YES, based on my own extended scientific studies I can affirm with 97.23% certainty: we are well beyond the “healed” stage.

      And you have NO clue who Armenians are, what Armenians feel, what allegedly “pains” us, and what doesn’t.

  16. Working together to come at the truth? Studying ‘archives’ to arrive at a agreed upon ‘truth’? The truth has been out there since 1915. This is all a political game to cloud the truth and confuse the more malleable western leaders. Frankly, the Russians have shown more courage and honesty in our matter than all the west combined.

  17. From a Turkish writer in Agos:

    http://asbarez.com/130520/the-truth-behind-turkeys-open-archives/

    The Truth Behind Turkey’s ‘Open Archives’

    ISTANBUL (Agos)—When the “Armenian Question” is discussed, Turkish state officials immediately talk about archives. The fact that the archives are open to everyone, and that all documents are accessible, is shown as adequate reason to leave the interpretation of the events of 1915 to historians. However, Mehmet Uluışık’s story completely disproves the official version regarding the archives.
    Uluışık is one of many citizens who were forced to migrate to Germany following the September 12, 1980, military coup d’état. Since he did not return to Turkey, he was stripped of citizenship in 1991 on the grounds that he had not carried out his military service. After becoming a German citizen in 1997, he comfortably travelled to Turkey at least once a year – that is, until November 2007.

    Uluışık states that he had encountered no problems until, in 2005, he began to collect documents from the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives (BOA) both for Prof. Taner Akçam’s and his own research. Having asked for documents related to the 1915 Armenian Genocide, Uluışık was questioned by archive workers on his third visit, and was effectively interrogated. Subjected to strange questions like, “Are you Armenian?” and “Do you frequently meet with Taner Akçam?” Uluışık also received death threats from different sources.

    When Uluışık wanted to return to Turkey only a week after he had left in November 2007, he was sent back to Germany on the grounds that there was an entry ban to the country in his name. The legal process initiated by Uluışık revealed the source of the ban. At the first hearing of the case he filed at the Administrative Court against the Ministry of Interior, the petition signed by Osman Karakuş from the Ministry as revealed at the court, showed that Uluışık had been considered, in accordance with the Passport Law, “among those who are coming to Turkey with the intention of harming the security and general order of the Republic of Turkey, or with the aim of collaborating with or aiding such persons”. At the second hearing, a petition from the Ministry made things even clearer. According to this petition, the Ministry had received an intelligence memorandum about Uluışık from the Police General Directorate. The views included in this memorandum clearly reveal that his research in the archive caused discomfort to the state: “Information has been received that the said person is carrying out work in the Ottoman archives in order to find support for theses such as; that late period Ottoman administrations, in the Union and Progress Party period and the National Struggle period, provoked Caucasian communities, and particularly Circassians, against Armenians, had Armenians and Circassians massacre each other, and in this manner carried out not only the Armenian but also the Circassian Genocide; and that he carries out his work with financial support he has received from the funds of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Goethe Institute based in Germany.

    Uluışık’s appeal to the ban was accepted first by the Administrative Court, and then by the Council of State. So Uluışık thought that his ban from entering the country had been lifted, but met with another surprise when he tried to enter Turkey on 15 May 2013: A new ban had been issued in April 2011. But the real shock was the news he received from his elder sister. Confident that he would enter Turkey, Uluışık had asked his elder sister to go to the archive to request documents on his behalf, so that they were ready for him to examine the next day. However, archive workers, upon hearing the name Mehmet Uluışık, responded to his sister, “He is prohibited from entering the archives”. And when his sister said, “His ban from entering Turkey has been lifted,” they said, “Even if he can enter Turkey, he cannot enter the archives”. Uluışık tried to find out the reason for his prohibition from the archives by contacting acquaintances in official positions in Ankara and found out that a letter sent by MİT, the National Intelligence Organization, to the institution during the term of Prime Ministry State Archives General Director Yusuf Sarınay prohibited him from entering the archives.

    Uluışık says, “Until then, I thought I was being banned from entering Turkey so that I wouldn’t enter the archives, so I was shocked to learn that my entry into the archives was already prohibited in every way”. Uluışık does not know the reason for the ban. “If we start talking about it, we could even blame the blowing wind,” says Uluışık, and adds that he won’t make any legal efforts anymore, since he knows that the state is capable of banning him forever.

  18. Though touted as being open to all researchers, scholars have complained about being prevented access to view documents due to the nature of their research topic.However, plenty of Armenian Genocide researchers including the British-Armenian Ara Sarafian, as well as Taner Akcam (known for his research on and acceptance of the Armenian Genocide) have used the Ottoman archives in Istanbul extensively when citing research for their books though they have made claims that obstacles were put during their access.

    The European Parliament stressed in a resolution voted on 15 April 2015, that Turkey should use the commemoration of the centenary of the Armenian genocide as an important opportunity to recognize the Armenian Genocide and open its archives.

    The WikiLeaks cable 04ISTANBUL1074 classified and signed by David Arnett on July 4, 2004 at the Consulate General of the US in Istanbul states, that Turkey has eliminated incriminating documents concerning the Armenian Genocide from the Archives:

    According to Sabanci University Professor Halil Berktay, there were two serious efforts to purge the archives of any incriminating documents on the Armenian question. The first took place in 1918, presumably before the Allied forces occupied Istanbul. Berktay and others point to testimony in the 1919 Turkish Military Tribunals indicating that important documents had been “stolen” from the archives. Berktay believes a second purge was executed in conjunction with Ozal’s efforts to open the archives by a group of retired diplomats and generals led by former Ambassador Muharrem Nuri Birgi.

  19. YES! It is well known that the Turkish Government have been working feverishly “santitizing” their archives so that there will be no evidence of any record of genocide acts or invent false contradictory evidence of humanitarian acts. The power elite (incl Hillary Clinton who as Secretary of State is quoted as saying that the acts surrounding the Armenian genocide are debatable by historians!??? Huh??? What planet is she on? She favors a debate between The Turks and the Armenians! Huh?? This will enable the Turkish Government to muddy the true history of the Armenian Genocide! Also, it is well known that the Turks have paid off several so-called historians to distort the true events of the Armenian Genocide. Nothing will be gained and the TRUTH will be buried, hidden from view. I am very surprised and disheartened that the Vatican has made this very questionable action.

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