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CARDINAL WAS INTERESTED IN POPE BENEDICT XV LETTER URGING TO STOP ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
June 12, 2014
ARMENPRESS. The letter of Pope Benedict XV to the Ottoman Empire Sultan
Mehmed 5th stored in the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, interested
the Catholic priest who had arrived in Armenia to participate in
the International Consultation "Crisis in Syria: Challenges for
Faith Communities ". He carefully examined the letter and was sure
that if properly submitted to the Holy See, it would be reviewed by
the Vatican.
As reports "Armenpress", the Museum guide, on June 12, introduced
in detail to the clergymen - conference participants from different
churches, the historical events of 1915 and the massacre of 1.5
million Armenians. The Catholic Church representative,
Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick (photo) was interested in the
episode, when the letter written by Pope Benedict XV on September 10,
1915, addressed to the Ottoman Empire Sultan Mehmed 5th was presented.
Theodore Edgar McCarrick (born July 7, 1930) is an American Cardinal
of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Washington
from 2001 to 2006, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.
Pope Benedict XV
http://www.horizonweekly.ca/news/details/40665
June 12, 2014
ARMENPRESS. The letter of Pope Benedict XV to the Ottoman Empire Sultan
Mehmed 5th stored in the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, interested
the Catholic priest who had arrived in Armenia to participate in
the International Consultation "Crisis in Syria: Challenges for
Faith Communities ". He carefully examined the letter and was sure
that if properly submitted to the Holy See, it would be reviewed by
the Vatican.
As reports "Armenpress", the Museum guide, on June 12, introduced
in detail to the clergymen - conference participants from different
churches, the historical events of 1915 and the massacre of 1.5
million Armenians. The Catholic Church representative,
Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick (photo) was interested in the
episode, when the letter written by Pope Benedict XV on September 10,
1915, addressed to the Ottoman Empire Sultan Mehmed 5th was presented.
Theodore Edgar McCarrick (born July 7, 1930) is an American Cardinal
of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Washington
from 2001 to 2006, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.
Pope Benedict XV
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