FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan — The bishop solemnly walked through the photos and illustrations documenting Nazi-led antisemitic sentiment, aided in several cases by Catholics, that doomed the Jews of Europe.

At one point he proudly noted he had befriended the nephew of a prominent Dutch Catholic resistance figure.

And when prompted to theorize why one Holocaust survivor might have taken such great effort, after the war, to sew his camp uniform back together, he gamely offered, “So people will remember.”

So far, so good for a religious leader’s interfaith visit to a Holocaust museum. But when Detroit Archbishop Edward Weisenburger spoke briefly to reporters at the conclusion of his Monday tour of the Zekelman Holocaust Center, he offered another thought — one about the present day.

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