We should all be together on this.
Human dignity is at stake.
The pope's words, delivered under towering marble figures of the Jews who founded Christianity, were an answer to some objections, raised by Jews, to the elevation of the modern era's first Jewish-born Catholic saint. But his effort did not put the controversy to rest. Many Jewish leaders still say the church is laying unjust claim to the martyrdom of a woman who died because she was a Jew. Her canonization, they argue, sends a message that the best Jews are those who convert to Catholicism and that the church was exclusively a victim of the Holocaust rather than a collaborator. Stein, born into a German Jewish family in 1891, was an atheist before her conversion in 1922 in the midst of an academic career as a philosopher.