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Vatican cardinal honors Jewish convert, tells his own story

FILE - Edith Stein is seen on a tapestry hanging on the facade St. Peter's Basilica, currently undergoing restoration, at the Vatican, Oct. 10, 1998. Cardinal Michael Czerny marked the 80th anniversary of the gas chamber killing of the Jewish-born Catholic convert Edith Stein on Tuesday Aug. 9, 2022, by celebrating a Mass at the former Auschwitz death camp and telling the story of his own family’s Jewish origins and their fate with the Nazis. (AP Photo/Corrado Giambalvo, File) FILE - Cardinal Michael Czerny poses for photographers prior to meeting relatives and friends after he was elevated to cardinal by Pope Francis, at the Vatican, Oct. 5, 2019. Cardinal Michael Czerny marked the 80th anniversary of the gas chamber killing of the Jewish-born Catholic convert Edith Stein on Tuesday Aug. 9, 2022, by celebrating a Mass at the former Auschwitz death camp and telling the story of his own family’s Jewish origins and their fate with the Nazis. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
Vatican cardinal honors Jewish convert, tells his own story