Papal reverend apologizes for Jewish remarks

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict"s personal reverend apologized to Jews on Sunday after he compared attacks on the Church and the pope over a passionate abuse liaison to "collective violence" opposite Jews via history.

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"If -- and it was not my goal to do so -- I harm the sensitivities of Jews and victims of pedophilia, I am indeed contemptible and I ask for forgiveness," Father Raniero Cantalamessa pronounced in an talk with Italy"s Corriere della Sera newspaper.

He additionally pronounced the pope was not wakeful of his remarks and that the prelate listened them for the initial time along with everybody else in St. Peter"s Basilica on Good Friday.

"Not usually did the pope not enthuse me but, similar to everybody else, listened my difference for the initial time similar to everybody else during the rite in the basilica," he said.

Cantalamessa, vocalization with the pope sitting nearby, pronounced Jews via story had been the victims of "collective violence" and drew comparisons in between Jewish pang and attacks on the Church.

"The make use of stereotypes, the alternate of personal shortcoming and shame to a common shame remind me of the majority shameful aspects of anti-Semitism," Cantalamessa quoted from a minute he pronounced he had perceived from a Jewish friend.

A Vatican orator after pronounced the more aged "is positively not the line of the Vatican and of the Catholic Church."

Jewish groups around the universe have reacted with shock to the comments, utilizing difference similar to repugnant, obscene, and descent to report the sermon.

Rome"s arch rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni pronounced the remarks were quite unresponsive since they were done on the day that for centuries Christians prayed for the acclimatisation of the Jews, who were once hold collectively obliged for Jesus" death.

(Editing by Jon Hemming)

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