Updated: Pope visits Auschwitz, begs God to forgive ‘so much cruelty’

OSWIECIM, Poland — Pope Francis paid a somber visit in silence to the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday, with his only public comment a guest book entry begging God’s “forgiveness for so much cruelty.” The Argentine-born pontiff made an early morning pilgrimage to the place where Adolf Hitler’s forces killed more than […]