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Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday the Catholic Church is "profoundly and irrevocably committed to reject all anti-Semitism."

The pope was meeting American Jewish leaders at the Vatican on the heels of a controversy over Holocaust denial.

Last month the Vatican lifted the excommunication of a rebel bishop just days after the broadcast of an interview in which he denied the existence of gas chambers and said no more than 300,000 Jews had died in Nazi concentration camps. Scholars have in fact documented approximately 6 million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust. Read full article »

CNN's Hada Messia in Rome and Kevin Flower in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

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