Warsaw - Poland's Catholic bishops said yesterday they would apologise this month for the second World War mass murder of a small-town Jewish community by their nonJewish neighbours.
But they said they would also ask God to forgive wrongs done by Jews during the war as well as those done by Polish Catholics to Jews.
In their first statement on the July 10th, 1941, Jedwabne massacre that has stirred heated debate in Poland the bishops said they would hold a service on May 27th at a Warsaw church beside the former wartime ghetto created by the Nazis.
They did not mention a 60th anniversary ceremony at Jedwabne on July 10th at which a monument to the town's Jews will be unveiled and ex-communist President Aleksander Kwasniewski plans to ask forgiveness.