Second, it means Vatican recognition that Mr. Bush cannot abandon his quest to bring the general to U.S. justice.

The Cardinal apparently feels that a political concern such as the issue of Vatican recognition of Israel is "totally irrelevant" to the Holocaust.

In a delegation visiting the Pope in the 1980's, she encouraged formal Vatican recognition of Israel.

He later suggested that the grim pictorial record had not changed his views on Vatican recognition of Israel.

"I wonder if the lack of Vatican recognition does not grow out of an inability to resolve that issue."

Around fifty of these continued to operate under official Vatican recognition.

For the Ustaša, "relations with the Vatican were as important as relations with Germany" because Vatican recognition was the key to widespread Croat support.

The Bolsheviks, in turn, hoped to gain international standing by obtaining Vatican recognition.

In remarks to reporters later, the Cardinal suggested that his tour of Yad Vashem had not changed his views on Vatican recognition of Israel.

Won't Talk About Diplomacy It is an arguable matter, he said, whether Vatican diplomatic recognition would "preclude such suffering" as the Holocaust.