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All aitrlipatpr Hrralft i Manchester — A City o! Village Charm -- 30 Cents •''- Saturday, Sept. 12,1987 ,> f POPE PRAYS FOR UNITY r; .^7,. • Day cements p , relations with other faiths COLUMBIA. S.C. (AP) — Pope John Paul II told Jewish leaders '4^ Friday that future generations must learn about the Holocaust so t a ; that it happens "never again, "then reached out to fellow Christians in a r ^ ^ 4,- j Joint prayer for unity. ,, 4 > v jfe t V '■i- -rr- . ^ And after two days of extolling American virtues, the pope turned to American vices, blaming the . !'' ■' A ‘ ’ "■"■■ A.*! breakdown of families on "a false notion of individual freedom." “ America; you cannot insist on the right to choose without also insisting on the duty to choose well,” the pontiff told an ecumeni cal prayer service. "Already there IM'i is much breakdown and pain in your own society because funda mental values, essential to the well-being of individuals, families and the entire nation, are being emptied of their real content,” After the service, the pope headed for New Orleans, the third of nine cities he Is visiting on his 10-day U.S. tour. Before leaving the Columbia airport, he met briefly with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, for a private chat. On a day devoted to cementing relations with other faiths, the leader of the world's 850 million Roman Catholics exhorted Protest ant and Orthodox leaders here "to work toward the time when it will be possible for Christians to confess together the one faith.” And he told a delegation of prominent Jews in Miami that he wanted to “ emphasize our faith in the one God,” and that asa result of the suffering of Jews in the Holocaust "the church experiences AP photo Please turn to page 3 Pope John Paul leaves the archbishop’s residence in Miami Friday.
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